R在使用唯一性时使用忽略NA

Question

我试图根据列值的相似性查找/舍弃行，并使用以下示例代码：

vec1 <- c("B","D","E","NA")    
vec2 <- c("B","D","E","NA")    
vec3 <- c("B","C","E","NA")    
vec4 <- c("B","D","E","NA")    
vec5 <- c("B","NA","E","E")    
vec6 <- c("B","NA","NA","NA")

mat1 <- cbind(vec1,vec2,vec3,vec4,vec5,vec6)
mat1
     vec1 vec2 vec3 vec4 vec5 vec6
[1,] "B"  "B"  "B"  "B"  "B"  "B" 
[2,] "D"  "D"  "C"  "D"  "NA" "NA"
[3,] "E"  "E"  "E"  "E"  "E"  "NA"
[4,] "NA" "NA" "NA" "NA" "E"  "NA"

rows = apply(mat1, 1, function(i) length(unique(i)) > 1 )
mat2 <- mat1[rows, ]
     vec1 vec2 vec3 vec4 vec5 vec6
[1,] "D"  "D"  "C"  "D"  "NA" "NA"
[2,] "E"  "E"  "E"  "E"  "E"  "NA
[3,] "NA" "NA" "NA" "NA" "E"  "NA"

如何更改上面的代码以实现此目的？ 在unique帮助文件中，它表明存在一个incomparables参数，该参数是否已实现并且可以使用？ 我不一定希望删除NA只是忽略它们。

Answer 1

从上面的评论

rows = apply(mat1, 1, function(i) length(unique(i[!(i=="NA")]))>1)

Answer 2

您需要正确输入它们， is.na才能正常工作。 目前，它们是字符串，并且NA已经分类为我们可以分配NA_character_为安全。 另外，我将建议summary这里有一些表格，可获取您所需的信息。

length(unique(...))本质上是一个table

> mat1[is.na(mat1)]  
# character(0)  ## not good 
> mat1[mat1 == "NA"] <- NA_character_
> mat1[is.na(mat1)]  ## notice the difference...
# [1] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

 > summary(mat1)
   vec1     vec2     vec3     vec4     vec5     vec6  
 B   :1   B   :1   B   :1   B   :1   B   :1   B   :1  
 D   :1   D   :1   C   :1   D   :1   E   :2   NA's:3  
 E   :1   E   :1   E   :1   E   :1   NA's:1           
 NA's:1   NA's:1   NA's:1   NA's:1       

> apply(mat1, 2, function(x) length(table(x)))
vec1 vec2 vec3 vec4 vec5 vec6 
   3    3    3    3    2    1 

> as.table(t(mat1))
     A B C D
vec1 B D E  
vec2 B D E  
vec3 B C E  
vec4 B D E  
vec5 B   E E
vec6 B