Unique

I have experienced a few explosions here and there. Yes, it’s me not reading the docs. But it’s also me, assuming that verbs mean one thing and not another. Let’s do some unique operations in different languages.

The MATLAB way

>> unique([3, 3, 3, 90, 10])

ans =

3 10 90

The Python way

>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.unique([3, 3, 3, 90, 10])
array([ 3, 10, 90])

The R way

[1]  3 90 10

This is what I would expect. I want the unique values, without the sorting. If I wanted to sort, I would do:

[1]  3 10 90

Maybe this is just me and R is the odd (read intuitive) ball here, but 🤷…

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Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{andina2020,
  author = {Andina, Matias},
  title = {Unique},
  date = {2020-07-05},
  url = {https://matiasandina.com/posts/2020-07-05-Unique},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Andina, Matias. 2020. “Unique.” July 5, 2020. https://matiasandina.com/posts/2020-07-05-Unique.