select_otherwise — select_otherwise • framecleaner

flexible select operator that powers the tidy consultant universe. Used to set sensible defaults and flexibly return the chosen columns. A developer focused function, but may be useful in interactive programming due to the ability to return different types.

select_otherwise(
  .data,
  ...,
  otherwise = NULL,
  col = NULL,
  return_type = c("names", "index", "df")
)

Arguments

.data: dataframe
...: tidyselect. columns to choose
otherwise: tidyselect. default columns to choose if ... is not specified
col: tidyselect. column to choose regardless of ... or otherwise specifications
return_type: choose to return column index, names, or df. defaults to index

Value

integer vector by default. possibly data frame or character vector

Examples


iris %>%
select_otherwise(where(is.double), return_type = "index")
#> Sepal.Length  Sepal.Width Petal.Length  Petal.Width 
#>            1            2            3            4