Problem What do I do when %__% doesn’t work? Context I love the %__%  pipe. Originally from magrittr, it’s now characteristic of tidy code. Using %__% has revolutionized how I write code in R (pssst! coming soon: an interactive pipe tutorial!). But sometimes the basic pipe falls short. table() is one ...

Today I’m departing a little from the problem/context/solution format of these posts to share some things I learned from last week’s rstudio::conf. When I started in R a few years ago, I never thought I would have any place at a coding conference for computer ...

Problem The case_when() function in dplyr is great for dealing with multiple complex conditions (if’s). But how do you specify an “else” condition in case_when()? Context Last month, I was super excited to discover the case_when() function in dplyr. But when I showed my blog post ...

Problem Especially in a project with many different scripts, it can be challenging to keep track of all the packages you need to load. It’s also easy to lose track of whether or not you’ve incorporated package loading into the script itself until you switch to a new ...

Problem The ifelse() function only allows for one “if” statement, two cases. You could add nested “if” statements, but that’s just a pain, especially if the 3+ conditions you want to use are all on the same level, conceptually. Is there a way to specify multiple conditions at the same ...

Problem It’s annoying to have to type the name of an object I just created in order to print its output in a script. Context A certain lightsaber-wielding stats professor of mine liked to point out that R doesn’t go out of its way to be helpful. If ...

Problem How can I convert a frequency table into proportions? Context This is a continuation of the data manipulation discussed in the ​`​with()` post. I had just finished making a table # Load data from GitHub polygon

Problem Making graphics with base R is annoying for many reasons, but a big one is having to type the name of the data frame over and over again to reference different columns. Context Back to our Mississippi River fish data. I’ve aggregated my sampling points into polygons, and ...