[R] Maximum recursion depth and unique()

[Mark E. Fenner]

Two questions:

First, what is R's maximum recursion depth (for function evaluations)?  Is
the value stored in a variable?  Can the value be modified?

Second, I've hacked out a function to take a matrix (array) of data and
return another that is the same except it removes any duplicate
columns.  After doing this I discovered the unique() function and I tried
to use it via apply() to do the same thing my function
"removeduplicates" did.

The closest I came to something that worked was "apply(t, 1, unique)" and
taking the transpose of this result (t is an 2D array).  This
didn't make sense at first; then I realized that the duplication I 
was looking for was a "row by row" duplication.  I don't
think what I have there will work in the general case.  So, does anyone
know how to use "unique" to remove duplicate columns from a 2D data
object?

Regards,
Mark

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