Modern R Programming Cookbook

How it works...

For each of the scenarios, it takes the data frame as input and then performs the operations. The examples that we saw in the previous section give us a clear indication of the flexibility of the summarise() verb and its powerful use in the context of big data. To achieve the same objective as you have done in the example from the previous section using the base R functionality, you will require more memory and processing power. However, the summarise() verb in the dplyr library easily handles larger datasets.