Overview
dplyr is a grammar of data manipulation, providing a consistent set of
verbs that help you solve the most common data manipulation challenges:
mutate() adds new variables that are functions of existing
variablesselect() picks variables based on their names.filter() picks cases based on their values.summarise() reduces multiple values down to a single summary.arrange() changes the ordering of the rows.
These all combine naturally with group_by() which allows you to
perform any operation “by group”. You can learn more about them in
vignette("dplyr"). As well as these single-table verbs, dplyr also
provides a variety of two-table verbs, which you can learn about in
vignette("two-table").
If you are new to dplyr, the best place to start is the data import
chapter in R for data science.
Backends
In addition to data frames/tibbles, dplyr makes working with other
computational backends accessible and efficient. Below is a list of
alternative backends:
-
dtplyr: for large, in-memory
datasets. Translates your dplyr code to high performance
data.table code.
-
dbplyr: for data stored in a
relational database. Translates your dplyr code to SQL.
-
sparklyr: for very large datasets
stored in Apache Spark.
Installation
# The easiest way to get dplyr is to install the whole tidyverse:
install.packages("tidyverse")
# Alternatively, install just dplyr:
install.packages("dplyr")
Development version
To get a bug fix, or use a feature from the development version, you can
install dplyr from GitHub.
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("tidyverse/dplyr")
Cheatsheet
Usage
library(dplyr)
starwars %>%
filter(species == "Droid")
#> # A tibble: 5 x 13
#> name height mass hair_color skin_color eye_color birth_year gender homeworld
#> <chr> <int> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 C-3PO 167 75 <NA> gold yellow 112 <NA> Tatooine
#> 2 R2-D2 96 32 <NA> white, bl… red 33 <NA> Naboo
#> 3 R5-D4 97 32 <NA> white, red red NA <NA> Tatooine
#> 4 IG-88 200 140 none metal red 15 none <NA>
#> 5 BB8 NA NA none none black NA none <NA>
#> # … with 4 more variables: species <chr>, films <list>, vehicles <list>,
#> # starships <list>
starwars %>%
select(name, ends_with("color"))
#> # A tibble: 87 x 4
#> name hair_color skin_color eye_color
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Luke Skywalker blond fair blue
#> 2 C-3PO <NA> gold yellow
#> 3 R2-D2 <NA> white, blue red
#> 4 Darth Vader none white yellow
#> 5 Leia Organa brown light brown
#> # … with 82 more rows
starwars %>%
mutate(name, bmi = mass / ((height / 100) ^ 2)) %>%
select(name:mass, bmi)
#> # A tibble: 87 x 4
#> name height mass bmi
#> <chr> <int> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 Luke Skywalker 172 77 26.0
#> 2 C-3PO 167 75 26.9
#> 3 R2-D2 96 32 34.7
#> 4 Darth Vader 202 136 33.3
#> 5 Leia Organa 150 49 21.8
#> # … with 82 more rows
starwars %>%
arrange(desc(mass))
#> # A tibble: 87 x 13
#> name height mass hair_color skin_color eye_color birth_year gender homeworld
#> <chr> <int> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Jabb… 175 1358 <NA> green-tan… orange 600 herma… Nal Hutta
#> 2 Grie… 216 159 none brown, wh… green, y… NA male Kalee
#> 3 IG-88 200 140 none metal red 15 none <NA>
#> 4 Dart… 202 136 none white yellow 41.9 male Tatooine
#> 5 Tarf… 234 136 brown brown blue NA male Kashyyyk
#> # … with 82 more rows, and 4 more variables: species <chr>, films <list>,
#> # vehicles <list>, starships <list>
starwars %>%
group_by(species) %>%
summarise(
n = n(),
mass = mean(mass, na.rm = TRUE)
) %>%
filter(n > 1,
mass > 50)
#> # A tibble: 8 x 3
#> species n mass
#> <chr> <int> <dbl>
#> 1 Droid 5 69.8
#> 2 Gungan 3 74
#> 3 Human 35 82.8
#> 4 Kaminoan 2 88
#> 5 Mirialan 2 53.1
#> # … with 3 more rows
Getting help
If you encounter a clear bug, please file a minimal reproducible example
on github. For questions
and other discussion, please use
community.rstudio.com, or the
manipulatr mailing list.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of
Conduct. By participating
in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
