Is there a function within forcats or elsewhere that returns the levels of a factor, but as a factor itself with the same levels? I find myself creating this function a fair bit - it's useful in combination with crossing(). Before adding it to my local package I was wondering if its equivalent exists already somewhere in the tidyverse or other common packages.
levels_w_levels <- function(x){
factor(levels(x),levels = levels(x))
}
Doesn't unique() do this 
Mostly, but the vector it returns isn't sorted by the levels.
Ah yes, right you are.
How about sort(unique(f))?
Also, just discovered forcats::fct_unique(f)! Who kniew?
Perfect! That's what I was looking for, not sure why I couldn't find it. Also I tend to forget about sort() so thanks for the reminder.
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