help(let, package=’replyr’)
A bit more on the let wrapper from our replyr R package.
Organize your data manipulation in terms of “grouped ordered apply”
Consider the common following problem: compute for a data set (say the infamous iris example data set) per-group ranks. Suppose we want the rank of iris Sepal.Lengths on a per-Species basis. Frankly this is an “ugh” problem for many analysts: it involves all at the same time grouping, ordering, and […]
The case for index-free data manipulation
Statisticians and data scientists want a neat world where data is arranged in a table such that every row is an observation or instance, and every column is a variable or measurement. Getting to this state of “ready to model format” (often called a denormalized form by relational algebra types) […]
Using replyr::let to Parameterize dplyr Expressions
Imagine that in the course of your analysis, you regularly require summaries of numerical values. For some applications you want the mean of that quantity, plus/minus a standard deviation; for other applications you want the median, and perhaps an interval around the median based on the interquartile range (IQR). In […]
Parametric variable names and dplyr
When writing reusable code or packages you often do not know the names of the columns or variables you need to work over. This is what I call “parametric treatment of variables.” This can be a problem when using R libraries that assume you know the variable names. The R […]
New R package: replyr (get a grip on remote dplyr data services)
It is a bit of a shock when R dplyr users switch from using a tbl implementation based on R in-memory data.frames to one based on a remote database or service. A lot of the power and convenience of the dplyr notation is hard to maintain with these more restricted […]