Duplicates - Cghlewis/data-wrangling-functions GitHub Wiki

This section is about working with duplicate cases in your data. In education research duplicate data may occur for reasons such as a participant completed a survey twice. In the cases of duplicates, there are often two things we wan to do:

1. Find and remove duplicates.
2. Count duplicates in your data.

Review and remove duplicates

• Find and remove duplicates
• [Count duplicates](See Count)

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Main functions used in examples

Package	Functions
janitor	get_dupes()
dplyr	distinct()

Other functions used in examples

Package	Functions
dplyr	arrange(); pick()

Resources

• https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/distinct.html
• https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/pick.html