Question

I have been struggling with how to select ONLY duplicated rows of data.frame in R.
For Instance, my data.frame is:

age=18:29
height=c(76.1,77,78.1,78.2,78.8,79.7,79.9,81.1,81.2,81.8,82.8,83.5)
Names=c("John","John","John", "Harry", "Paul", "Paul", "Paul", "Khan", "Khan", "Khan", "Sam", "Joe")
village <- data.frame(Names, age, height)

 Names age height
 John  18   76.1
 John  19   77.0
 John  20   78.1
 Harry  21   78.2
 Paul  22   78.8
 Paul  23   79.7
 Paul  24   79.9
 Khan  25   81.1
 Khan  26   81.2
 Khan  27   81.8
 Sam  28   82.8
 Joe  29   83.5

I want to see the result as following:

Names age height
John  18   76.1
John  19   77.0
John  20   78.1
Paul  22   78.8
Paul  23   79.7
Paul  24   79.9
Khan  25   81.1
Khan  26   81.2
Khan  27   81.8

Thanks for your time…

Answer 1

A solution using duplicated twice:

village[duplicated(village$Names) | duplicated(village$Names, fromLast = TRUE), ]


   Names age height
1   John  18   76.1
2   John  19   77.0
3   John  20   78.1
5   Paul  22   78.8
6   Paul  23   79.7
7   Paul  24   79.9
8   Khan  25   81.1
9   Khan  26   81.2
10  Khan  27   81.8

An alternative solution with by:

village[unlist(by(seq(nrow(village)), village$Names, 
                  function(x) if(length(x)-1) x)), ]