How to remove duplicate values from different rows per unique identifier?

I'm just starting to use R. I have a dataset with in the first column unique identifiers (1958 patients) and in columns 2-35 0's en 1's.

For example:

Patient A:  0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 NA NA 

I want to change this to:

Patient A: 0 1 0 1 0 1

Thanks in advance.