Exclude subsequent duplicated rows

Question

I would like to exclude all duplicated rows. However, it has to be true just when they are subsequent rows. Follows a representative example:

My input df:

    df <- "NAME   VALUE 
    Prb1  0.05
    Prb2  0.05
    Prb3  0.05
    Prb4  0.06
    Prb5  0.06
    Prb6  0.01
    Prb7  0.10
    Prb8  0.05"

df <- read.table(text=df, header=T)

My expected outdf:

outdf <- "NAME   VALUE 
Prb1  0.05
Prb4  0.06
Prb6  0.01
Prb7  0.10
Prb8  0.05"

outdf <- read.table(text=df, header=T)

Answer 1

rle() is a nice function that identifies runs of identical values, but it can be kind of a pain to wrestle it's output into a usable form. Here's a relatively painless incantation that works in your case.

df[sequence(rle(df$VALUE)$lengths) == 1, ]
#   NAME VALUE
# 1 Prb1  0.05
# 4 Prb4  0.06
# 6 Prb6  0.01
# 7 Prb7  0.10
# 8 Prb8  0.05