janitor (version 1.2.0)

remove_constant: Remove constant columns from a data.frame or matrix.

Description

Remove constant columns from a data.frame or matrix.

Usage

remove_constant(dat, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

dat

the input data.frame or matrix.

na.rm

should NA values be removed when considering whether a column is constant? The default value of FALSE will result in a column not being removed if it's a mix of a single value and NA.

See Also

remove_empty() for removing empty columns or rows.

Other remove functions: remove_empty

Examples

# NOT RUN {
remove_constant(data.frame(A=1, B=1:3))

# To find the columns that are constant
data.frame(A=1, B=1:3) %>%
  dplyr::select_at(setdiff(names(.), names(remove_constant(.)))) %>%
  unique()
# }