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Checking for Duplicate Rows with TidyDensity

Steven Sanderson looks for dupes:

Today, we’re diving into a useful new function from the TidyDensity R package: check_duplicate_rows(). This function is designed to efficiently identify duplicate rows within a data frame, providing a logical vector that flags each row as either a duplicate or unique. Let’s explore how this function works and see it in action with some illustrative examples.

Read on to see how it works. Though I am curious about whether there’s an option to ignore certain columns, such as row IDs or other “non-essential” columns you don’t want to include for comparison. Also, checking how it handles NA or NULL would be interesting.