R Identify Unique Values in List Object (Example Code)

This article illustrates how to return all unique list values in R.

Creation of Example Data

example_list <- list(9:4,       # Example list in R
                     12:3,
                     10:7,
                     20:19,
                     1:7,
                     15)
example_list
# [[1]]
# [1] 9 8 7 6 5 4
# 
# [[2]]
#  [1] 12 11 10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3
# 
# [[3]]
# [1] 10  9  8  7
# 
# [[4]]
# [1] 20 19
# 
# [[5]]
# [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
# 
# [[6]]
# [1] 15
#

Example: Returning Unique List Values in R

unique(unlist(example_list))    # Finding unique elements
#  [1]  9  8  7  6  5  4 12 11 10  3 20 19  1  2 15

Further Resources & Related Tutorials

You may have a look at the following R tutorials. They focus on topics such as data inspection, missing data, lists, and variables.

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