Remove duplicated rows

For people who have come here to look for a general answer for duplicate row removal, use !duplicated():

a <- c(rep("A", 3), rep("B", 3), rep("C",2))
b <- c(1,1,2,4,1,1,2,2)
df <-data.frame(a,b)

duplicated(df)
[1] FALSE  TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE

> df[duplicated(df), ]
  a b
2 A 1
6 B 1
8 C 2

> df[!duplicated(df), ]
  a b
1 A 1
3 A 2
4 B 4
5 B 1
7 C 2

Answer from: Removing duplicated rows from R data frame

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