Thanks all for your inputs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff Newmiller" <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>, r-help@r-project.org, "Eric
Berger" <ericjber...@gmail.com>, "Richard O'Keefe" <rao...@gmail.com>
Cc: "Sebastien Bihorel" <sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 12:52:55 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Control the variable order after multiple declarations using
within
On 03/07/2019 12:42 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> Dummy columns do have some drawbacks though, if you find yourself working
> with large data frames. The dummy columns waste memory and time as compared
> to either reorganizing columns after the `within` or using separate
> sequential `with` expressions as I previously suggested. I think mutate
> avoids this overhead also.
I think mutate() has only a very small advantage over within(). Neither
one of them is flexible about the order of columns in the final result.
In the OPs example, mutate creates the variables in the desired order,
but it would be no better if the desired order had been a, c, b, because
b is needed for the calculation of c, so it would be created first.
Eric's suggestion
within(df, {b<-a*2; c<-b*3})[c("a","b","c")]
is the best so far, though I'd probably write it as
within(df, {b<-a*2; c<-b*3})[, c("a","b","c")]
just to avoid confusing my future self and make clear that I'm talking
about specifying an order for the columns.
And if you really, really want everything to happen within the call,
just create the variables in the reverse order to what you want, e.g.
within(df, {c <- a; b<-a*2; c<-b*3})
but to me that is a lot less clear than Eric's solution.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> On July 3, 2019 8:25:32 AM PDT, Eric Berger <ericjber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nice suggestion, Richard.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:28 PM Richard O'Keefe <rao...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not set all the new columns to dummy values to get the order you
>>> want and then set them to their final values in the order that works
>>> for that?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 00:12, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Jul 3, 2019, at 3:15 AM, Sebastien Bihorel <
>>>> sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The within function can be used to modify data.frames (among
>> other
>>>> objects). One can even provide multiple expressions to modify the
>>>> data.frame by more than one expression. However, when new variables
>> are
>>>> created, they seem to be inserted in the data.frame in the opposite
>> order
>>>> they were declared:
>>>>>
>>>>>> df <- data.frame(a=1)
>>>>>> within(df, {b<-a*2; c<-b*3})
>>>>> a c b
>>>>> 1 1 6 2
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a way to insert the variables in an order consistent
>> with the
>>>> order of declaration (ie, a, b, c)?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One way is to use mutate() from the dplyr package.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Sebastien
>>>>>
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