makeUnique: Make Duplicated Character Strings Unique adds ".1", ".2",...

In KWB-R/kwb.utils: General Utility Functions Developed at KWB

Make Duplicated Character Strings Unique adds ".1", ".2", etc. to duplicate values

Description

Make Duplicated Character Strings Unique

adds ".1", ".2", etc. to duplicate values

Usage

makeUnique(x, warn = TRUE, sep = ".", simple = FALSE)

Arguments

x	vector of character strings
warn	if TRUE (default) a warning showing the duplicated values is given
sep	separator between name and suffix number. Default: "."
simple	if TRUE all elements with identical name (e.g. "a") are numbered (e.g. "a.1", "a.2", "a.3"), otherwise the first element is kept unchanged and all but the first one are numbered (e.g. "a", "a.1", "a.2"). The default is FALSE.

Value

x with duplicate elements being modified to "element.1", "element.2", etc.

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