10 Must-Know Tidyverse Functions: #2 - across()
Written by Matt Dancho
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The across()
function was just released in dplyr 1.0.0. It’s a new tidyverse function that extends group_by
and summarize
for multiple column and function summaries.
Learn how to use across()
to summarize data like a data wizard:
Why Across?
Across doesn’t do anything you can’t with normal group_by()
and summarize()
. So why across()
? Simply put, across()
allows you to scale up your summarization to multiple columns and multiple functions.
Across makes it easy to apply a mean and standard deviation to one or more columns. We just slect the columns and functions that we want to apply.
That was ridiculously easy. Keep it up & you’ll become a tidyverse
rockstar.
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