Helper function to find duplicated rows
Arguments
- x
DataFrame or data.table
- col_names
character vector, columns in which duplication are searched for
- output
string with the output format to be returned - one of "index" (index of duplicates) or "data" (subset of input data with duplicates)
Examples
dt <- data.table::data.table(a = c(1, 2, 3), b = c(3, 2, 2))
get_duplicated_rows(dt, "b")
#> [1] 2 3
get_duplicated_rows(dt, "b", output = "data")
#> a b
#> <num> <num>
#> 1: 2 2
#> 2: 3 2