split_vector_unique: Splits Fields Character Vector

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Splits Fields Character Vector

Description

This function splits a character vector of any length into a matrix with n rows of x elements. This is to get around the 20 field limit imposed by the API. When necessary removes duplicates and fills columns with NA values. Adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/48930537

Usage

split_vector_unique(x, n)

Arguments

x	A character vector
n	The number of elements (strings) in each column

Examples

split_vector_unique(x= sample(c("April", "is", "the","cruellest","month","breeding",
"lilacs"), size = 40, replace = TRUE), n =5)

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