Compacting a vector of any length with or without names
Examples
sample(seq_len(4), 20, TRUE) |>
as_factor() |>
named_levels() |>
sort() |>
compact_vec()
#> [1] "1: 1; 2: 2; 3: 3; 4: 4"
1:6 |> compact_vec()
#> [1] "1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6"
"test" |> compact_vec()
#> [1] "test"
sample(letters[1:9], 20, TRUE) |> compact_vec()
#> [1] "i; e; c; b; g; d; d; b; i; b; c; c; a; g; e; d; a; c; g; a"