Say I have a function that returns two scalars, and I want to use it with summarize
, e.g.
fn = function(x) {
list(mean(x), sd(x))
}
iris %>%
summarize(fn(Petal.Length)) # Error: Column `fn(Petal.Length)` must be length 1 (a summary value), not 2
iris %>%
summarize(c("a","b") := fn(Petal.Length))
# Error: The LHS of `:=` must be a string or a symbol Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.
I tried both ways, but can't figure it out.
However, this can be done with data.table
library(data.table)
iris1 = copy(iris)
setDT(iris1)[, fn(Petal.Length)]
Is there a way to do this in dplyr
?