In R it has always been incorrect to call order() on a data.frame. Such a call doesn’t return a sort-order of the rows, and previously did not return an error. For example. d <- data.frame( x = c(2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 1), y = 6:1) knitr::kable(d) x y 2 […]
We forgot to say: R Journal Volume 10/2, December 2018 is out! A huge thanks to the editors who work very hard to make this possible. And big “thank you” to the editors, referees, and journal for helping improve, and for including our note on pipes in R.
R Tip: use inline operators for legibility. A Python feature I miss when working in R is the convenience of Python‘s inline + operator. In Python, + does the right thing for some built in data types: It concatenates lists: [1,2] + [3] is [1, 2, 3]. It concatenates strings: […]
wrapr 1.6.2 is now up on CRAN. We have some neat new features for R users to try (in addition to many earlier wrapr goodies).
We are pleased to announce that seplyr version 0.5.8 is now available on CRAN. seplyr is an R package that provides a thin wrapper around elements of the dplyr package and (now with version 0.5.8) the tidyr package. The intent is to give the part time R user the ability […]
R tip. Use wrapr::match_order() to align data.
R tip: force the use of named arguments when designing function signatures. R’s named function argument binding is a great aid in writing correct programs. It is a good idea, if practical, to force optional arguments to only be usable by name. To do this declare the additional arguments after […]
While going over some of the discussion related to my last post I came up with a really neat way to use wrapr::let() and rlang/tidyeval together. Please read on to see the situation and example.
From dplyr issue 2916. The following appears to work. suppressPackageStartupMessages(library("dplyr")) COL <- "homeworld" starwars %>% group_by(.data[[COL]]) %>% head(n=1) ## # A tibble: 1 x 14 ## # Groups: COL [1] ## name height mass hair_color skin_color eye_color birth_year ## <chr> <int> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> ## 1 Luke Skywalker […]