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Named append #99

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hadley opened this issue Jun 17, 2016 · 6 comments
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Named append #99

hadley opened this issue Jun 17, 2016 · 6 comments
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hadley commented Jun 17, 2016

It would be useful to have some way to add a single column to a specific position in a data frame.

Here's a basic implementation that does what I want, but could clearly be optimised.

insert_col <- function(data, x, after, name = deparse(substitute(x))) {
  as.data.frame(append(data, setNames(list(x), name), after))
}

mtcars %>% insert_col(1:32, 0, "id")

The example gives something I want to do fairly commonly: insert an id column at the front of a data frame. The name of the id column is often given by a variable, so it's useful to have an interface that doesn't use names.

It might also be useful to have insert_cols() which worked like append, but preserved the output class. That would be useful if you had multiple columns you wanted to insert.

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jennybc commented Jun 17, 2016

If something like this could be used from dplyr::mutate(), that would really make my day. It is common to have a pipeline that ends with select() just to hitch newly created variables up into position.

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jennybc commented Jul 22, 2016

This is very related to the request in #85, but over there it's described as "shelved"? I also need to add a variable to the front of a tibble, which is kind of awkward right now.

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krlmlr commented Jul 30, 2016

We have add_row(), so add_column() is a logical extension, and much simpler than a generic cbind() (#85). I'd support both before and after arguments (as name or index, one of them takes precedence).

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hadley commented Jul 30, 2016

@krlmlr I like that idea!

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jennybc commented Jul 30, 2016

Will the before/after flexibility propagate back to add_row()? That also comes up. Also would make the lack of rbind() slightly less painful (#34).

@krlmlr krlmlr modified the milestone: 2.0 Aug 8, 2016
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- New `add_column()`, analogously to `add_row()` (#99).
@krlmlr krlmlr closed this as completed in 46f89af Aug 16, 2016
krlmlr added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 16, 2016
- Internal: Cleanup of formatting code.
- `add_row()` now correctly handles existing columns of type `list` that are not updated (#148).
- `nibble()` has been renamed to `tribble()`, stands for "transposed tibble" (#143).
- `add_row()` and `add_column()` gain `.before` and `.after` arguments which indicate the row (by number) or column (by number or name) before or after which the new data are inserted. Updated or added columns cannot be named `.before` or `.after` (#99).
- New `add_column()`, analogously to `add_row()` (#99).
- `add_row()` now can add multiple rows, with recycling (#142, @jennybc).
krlmlr added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 26, 2016
- The `tibble.width` option is used for `glimpse()` only if it is finite (#153, @kwstat).
- New `as_tibble.poly()` to support conversion of a `poly` object to a tibble (#110).
- `add_row()` now correctly handles existing columns of type `list` that are not updated (#148).
- `all.equal()` doesn't throw an error anymore if one of the columns is named `na.last`, `decreasing` or `method` (#107, @BillDunlap).

- New `add_column()`, analogously to `add_row()` (#99).
- `print.tbl_df()` gains `n_extra` method and will have the same interface as `trunc_mat()` from now on.
- `add_row()` and `add_column()` gain `.before` and `.after` arguments which indicate the row (by number) or column (by number or name) before or after which the new data are inserted. Updated or added columns cannot be named `.before` or `.after` (#99).
- Rename `frame_data()` to `tribble()`, stands for "transposed tibble". The former is still available as alias (#132, #143).

- `add_row()` now can add multiple rows, with recycling (#142, @jennybc).
- Use multiply character `×` instead of `x` when printing dimensions (#126). Output tests had to be disabled for this on Windows.
- Back-tick non-semantic column names on output (#131).
- Use `dttm` instead of `time` for `POSIXt` values (#133), which is now used for columns of the `difftime` class.
- Better output for 0-row results when total number of rows is unknown (e.g., for SQL data sources).

- New object summary vignette that shows which methods to define for custom vector classes to be used as tibble columns (#151).
- Added more examples for `print.tbl_df()`, now using data from `nycflights13` instead of `Lahman` (#121), with guidance to install `nycflights13` package if necessary (#152).
- Minor changes in vignette (#115, @Helix123).
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