This function identifies duplicate rows in a data frame based on specified fields. It returns a data frame containing the duplicate rows and their counts.
Usage
find_duplicates(
df,
fields = NULL,
count_only = FALSE,
return_all_cols = TRUE,
additional_cols = NULL
)Arguments
- df
A data frame to check for duplicates
- fields
A character vector of field names to check for duplicates. If NULL, defaults to c("USUBJID", "TIME", "ANALYTE") for NIF data.
- count_only
Logical indicating whether to return only the count of duplicates (default: FALSE)
- return_all_cols
Logical indicating whether to return all columns from the original data frame (default: TRUE)
- additional_cols
Character vector of additional columns to include in the output when return_all_cols is FALSE