Chaining operations in dplyr
To perform multiple operations on data using dplyr
, we can wrap up the function calls into a larger function call. Or, we can use the %>%
chaining operator to chain operations instead. In this recipe, we introduced how to chain operations when using dplyr
.
Getting ready
Ensure that you completed the Enhancing a data.frame with a data.table recipe to load purchase_view.tab
and purchase_order.tab
as both data.frame
and data.table
into your R environment.
How to do it…
Perform the following steps to subset and slice data with dplyr
:
- In R, to sum up a sequence from
1
to10
, we can wrap the series of1
to10
with thesum
function:> sum(1:10) [1] 55
- Alternatively, we can use a chaining operator to chain operations:
> 1:10 %>% ...
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