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dtplyr (version 1.3.1)

unite.dtplyr_step: Unite multiple columns into one by pasting strings together.

Description

This is a method for the tidyr unite() generic.

Usage

# S3 method for dtplyr_step
unite(data, col, ..., sep = "_", remove = TRUE, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

data

A data frame.

col

The name of the new column, as a string or symbol.

This argument is passed by expression and supports quasiquotation (you can unquote strings and symbols). The name is captured from the expression with rlang::ensym() (note that this kind of interface where symbols do not represent actual objects is now discouraged in the tidyverse; we support it here for backward compatibility).

...

<tidy-select> Columns to unite

sep

Separator to use between values.

remove

If TRUE, remove input columns from output data frame.

na.rm

If TRUE, missing values will be removed prior to uniting each value.

Examples

Run this code
library(tidyr)

df <- lazy_dt(expand_grid(x = c("a", NA), y = c("b", NA)))
df

df %>% unite("z", x:y, remove = FALSE)

# Separate is almost the complement of unite
df %>%
  unite("xy", x:y) %>%
  separate(xy, c("x", "y"))
# (but note `x` and `y` contain now "NA" not NA)

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