getUniques: Trim Data.Frame To Unique Values Only
In ecology-rocks/grammaR: Context Free Grammar Story Building Helper in R

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

This function is used to remove any rows in a data.frame with repeated elements. It is necessary in grammaR because if we have two keys with the value "said" in the dictionary, one will override the other when we do things like spin a story up from plain text.

1	getUniques(df, colname = "val")

`df`	The data.frame to check; should have a column named "val" or a character value in "colname" parameter.
`colname`	The name of the column to search and clean by.

This function returns a data.frame with only unique values. It also removes any stray "|" symbols.

## removing uniques, cleaning out | symbols
sampleDf <- data.frame(key=c("<rubber>", "<joy>", "<hangar>"),
       val=c("farm", "farm", "toys |"), stringsAsFactors=F)
 getUniques(sampleDf)