| group_by {dplyr} | R Documentation |
Most data operations are done on groups defined by variables.
group_by() takes an existing tbl and converts it into a grouped tbl
where operations are performed "by group". ungroup() removes grouping.
group_by(.data, ..., add = FALSE) ungroup(x, ...)
.data |
a tbl |
... |
Variables to group by. All tbls accept variable names. Some tbls will accept functions of variables. Duplicated groups will be silently dropped. |
add |
When |
x |
A |
group_by() is an S3 generic with methods for the three built-in
tbls. See the help for the corresponding classes and their manip
methods for more details:
data.frame: grouped_df
data.table: dtplyr::grouped_dt
SQLite: src_sqlite()
PostgreSQL: src_postgres()
MySQL: src_mysql()
The three scoped variants (group_by_all(), group_by_if() and
group_by_at()) make it easy to group a dataset by a selection of
variables.
by_cyl <- mtcars %>% group_by(cyl) # grouping doesn't change how the data looks (apart from listing # how it's grouped): by_cyl # It changes how it acts with the other dplyr verbs: by_cyl %>% summarise( disp = mean(disp), hp = mean(hp) ) by_cyl %>% filter(disp == max(disp)) # Each call to summarise() removes a layer of grouping by_vs_am <- mtcars %>% group_by(vs, am) by_vs <- by_vs_am %>% summarise(n = n()) by_vs by_vs %>% summarise(n = sum(n)) # To removing grouping, use ungroup by_vs %>% ungroup() %>% summarise(n = sum(n)) # You can group by expressions: this is just short-hand for # a mutate/rename followed by a simple group_by mtcars %>% group_by(vsam = vs + am) # By default, group_by overrides existing grouping by_cyl %>% group_by(vs, am) %>% group_vars() # Use add = TRUE to instead append by_cyl %>% group_by(vs, am, add = TRUE) %>% group_vars()