duplicates in multiple columns

Question

I have a data frame like so

> df
  a  b c    d
1 1  2 A 1001
2 2  4 B 1002
3 3  6 B 1002
4 4  8 C 1003
5 5 10 D 1004
6 6 12 D 1004
7 7 13 E 1005
8 8 14 E          


        

Answer 1

It works if you use duplicated twice:

df[!(duplicated(df[c("c","d")]) | duplicated(df[c("c","d")], fromLast = TRUE)), ]

  a  b c    d
1 1  2 A 1001
4 4  8 C 1003
7 7 13 E 1005
8 8 14 E 1006