How to make a unique set of names from a vector of strings?

Question

I have a vector of strings. Check out my vector, it\'s awesome:

> awesome
[1] \"a\" \"b\" \"c\" \"d\" \"d\" \"e\" \"f\" \"f\"

Answer 1

Try make.unique() where the very first example of the help page is already spot-on:

make.unique(c("a", "a", "a"))
[1] "a"   "a.1"   "a.2"

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