Delete duplicate elements (separated by comma) in a character vector in R

Asked Apr 28 '20 at 11:59

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I have a character vector that looks like this:

 vector

 "Narcos: Mexico, Narcos, Narcos: Mexico"
 "V for Vendetta, Narcos: Mexico"
 "Criminal: France, Criminal UK, Criminal: France"
 "V for Vendetta"
 ...

what I want to do is to get rid of duplicate titles from for each row, where every title is separated by a comma:

 "Narcos: Mexico, Narcos"
 "V for Vendetta, Narcos: Mexico"
 "Criminal: France, Criminal UK"
 "V for Vendetta"
 ...

data

vector1 <- c("Narcos: Mexico, Narcos, Narcos: Mexico", "V for Vendetta, Narcos: Mexico", 
"Criminal: France, Criminal UK, Criminal: France", "V for Vendetta"
)

edited Apr 28 '20 at 12:07

asked Apr 28 '20 at 11:59

Carbo

Can you add data using `dput` i.e `dput(vector)` ? – Ronak Shah Apr 28 '20 at 12:03
@RonakShah done – Carbo Apr 28 '20 at 12:07
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Try `sapply(strsplit(your_vector, ', '), function(i)toString(unique(i)))` – Sotos Apr 28 '20 at 12:08

Delete duplicate elements (separated by comma) in a character vector in R

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