How do I select all unique combinations of two columns in an R data frame?

Question

I have a correlation matrix that I put in a dataframe like so:

row | var1 | var2 | cor
1   | A    | B    | 0.6
2   | B    | A    | 0.6
3   | A    | C    | 0         


        

Answer 1

Here's one way with tidyverse -

dat2 <- dat %>% 
  filter(!duplicated(paste0(pmax(var1, var2), pmin(var1, var2))))


# A tibble: 2 x 3
  var1  var2    cor
    
1 A     B     0.600
2 A     C     0.400

Data -

dat <- data_frame(
  var1 = LETTERS[c(1,2,1,3)],
  var2 = LETTERS[c(2,1,3,1)],
  cor = c(0.6,0.6,0.4,0.4))

Note: cleaned up the logic thanks to @tmfmnk