magrittr Questions

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I have a data frame which I am dcasting using the reshape2 package, and I would like to remove the first column and have it become the row names of the data frame instead. Original dataframe, befo...
Horseshoe asked 20/2, 2016 at 1:55

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i have a rather specific question: how can I make a string into a factor and set its contrasts within a pipe ? Let's say that I have a tibble like the following tib <- data_frame (a = rep(c("...
Viceregal asked 17/7, 2017 at 9:40

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When using the pipe operator %>% with packages such as dplyr, ggvis, dycharts, etc, how do I do a step conditionally? For example; step_1 %>% step_2 %>% if(condition) step_3 These appr...
Newly asked 2/6, 2015 at 18:44

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I have seen the use of %>% (percent greater than percent) function in some packages like dplyr and rvest. What does it mean? Is it a way to write closure blocks in R?
Pammy asked 25/11, 2014 at 11:37

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Is there a way of doing the following ex1 <- quote(iris) ex2 <- quote(dplyr::filter(Species == "setosa" & Sepal.Width > 4)) substitute(x %>% y, list(x = ex1, y = ex2)) #&...
Zampardi asked 10/9, 2023 at 7:16

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I am trying to learn the piping function (%>%). When trying to convert from this line of code to another line it does not work. ---- R code -- original version ----- set.seed(1014) replicate(6,sa...
Pydna asked 7/4, 2017 at 16:15

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In my R script, I would like to print a message in the middle of a long pipe (which takes a long time to run) without breaking the pipe. I need this to track the progress of the running pipeline. I...
Chon asked 19/7, 2023 at 15:28

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Is the %>% pipe operator always feeding the left-hand side (LHS) to the first argument of the right-hand side (RHS)? Even if the first argument is specified again in the RHS call? Say I want t...
Vookles asked 2/8, 2016 at 10:14

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I have used %>%, the magrittr pipe, as given in its documentation by providing a function without empty parentheses to the RHS in this answer and got a comment that the recommended convention is...
Janinajanine asked 25/5, 2023 at 19:20

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Magrittr has those different pipes: %>% Pipe %<>% Assignment pipe %$% Exposition pipe %!>% Eager pipe %T>% Tee pipe What are their differences and use cases?
Lazulite asked 24/5, 2023 at 19:14

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I have a main function which performs a handful of variously complicated (and long-running) computations on some data, it performs these steps using the pipe from tidyverse / magrittr. I would like...
Megaton asked 4/5, 2023 at 14:32

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Can someone explain why table()doesn't work inside a chain of dplyr-magrittr piped operations? Here's a simple reprex: tibble( type = c("Fast", "Slow", "Fast", "Fast", "Slow"), colour = c("Blue...
Sibylsibylla asked 13/6, 2017 at 17:40

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I would like to understand why, in the the dplyr or magrittr package, and more specifically the chaining function %>% has some trouble with the basic operators +, -, *, and / Chaining takes the...
Acanthus asked 8/12, 2014 at 18:23

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How can I use the pipe operator to pipe into replacement function like colnames()<- ? Here's what I'm trying to do: library(dplyr) averages_df <- group_by(mtcars, cyl) %>% summarise(m...
Tympanitis asked 22/1, 2015 at 23:51

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I often use R's setNames function in a magrittr pipeline or elsewhere to fix the names of an object on the fly: library(magrittr) mytable %>% setNames(c("col1", "col2", "col3")) %>% ...[more...
Everything asked 7/2, 2015 at 0:56

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I've been experimenting quite a bit with the increasingly popular %>% operator from the magrittr package. I've used it enough that I've set a keyboard shortcut to save me typing: shift+command...
Ambroid asked 29/5, 2014 at 5:55

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Under certain circumstances, piping to return() doesn't appear to behave expectedly. To demonstrate, here are 4 cases Suppose we define a function that returns the result of str_replace_all library...
Ramer asked 5/1, 2020 at 4:8

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I would like to be able to print the name of a dataframe passed through the pipe. Is this possible? I can do. printname <- function(df){ print(paste(substitute(df))) } printname(mtcars) #[1] "...
Knowledge asked 2/3, 2017 at 16:10

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How do you pipe an object into a specific place in an apply call, that isn't the first input? The magrittr dot placeholder does not seem to work for this. dat <- 1:10 locs <- list(c(1, 2),...
Polaris asked 18/5, 2022 at 11:16

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In R 4.1 (May 2021) a native pipe operator was introduced that is "more streamlined" than previous implementations. I already noticed one difference between the native |> and the magri...
Bohlen asked 21/5, 2021 at 8:6

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I'm running an example in R, going through the steps and everything is working so far except for this code produces an error: words <- dtm %>% as.matrix %>% colnames %>% (function...
Digamma asked 14/5, 2015 at 22:33

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Recently I have found the %$% pipe operator, but I am missing the point regarding its difference with %>% and if it could completely replace it. Motivation to use %$% The operator %$% could re...
Esparza asked 6/2, 2022 at 14:19

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I'm trying to achieve two things that might not be compatible: I would like my code that is in my RMarkdown chunks to be wrapped around in each each line when I create a PDF (in other words, the li...
Ostwald asked 3/8, 2020 at 0:17

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Is there a way to pipe in base R, without having to define your own function (i.e. something 'out of the box'), and without having to load any external packages? That is, some (base R) alternative ...
Swedenborgian asked 16/12, 2020 at 18:48

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Is it possible to filter a data.frame for complete cases using dplyr? complete.cases with a list of all variables works, of course. But that is a) verbose when there are a lot of variables and b) i...
Lowrey asked 12/3, 2014 at 13:50

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