I have a large dataset with the two first columns that serve as ID (one is an ID and the other one is a year variable). I would like to compute a count by group and to loop over each variable that is not an ID one. This code below shows what I want to achieve for one variable:
library(tidyverse)
df <- tibble(
ID1 = c(rep("a", 10), rep("b", 10)),
year = c(2001:2020),
var1 = rnorm(20),
var2 = rnorm(20))
df %>%
select(ID1, year, var1) %>%
filter(if_any(starts_with("var"), ~!is.na(.))) %>%
group_by(year) %>%
count() %>%
print(n = Inf)
I cannot use a loop that starts with for(i in names(df))
since I want to keep the variables "ID1" and "year". How can I run this piece of code for all the columns that start with "var"? I tried using quosures but it did not work as I receive the error select() doesn't handle lists
. I also tried to work with select(starts_with("var")
but with no success.
Many thanks!
CodePudding user response:
Another possible solution:
library(tidyverse)
df %>%
group_by(ID1) %>%
summarise(across(starts_with("var"), ~ length(na.omit(.x))))
#> # A tibble: 2 × 3
#> ID1 var1 var2
#> <chr> <int> <int>
#> 1 a 10 10
#> 2 b 10 10
CodePudding user response:
for(i in names(df)[grepl('var',names(df))])