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T. MailundR 4 Data Science Quick Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8780-4_4

4. Tidy Select

Thomas Mailund1  
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Aarhus, Denmark
 

So-called “tidy select ” is not a package you would use on its own (although you can import it and it is called tidyselect), rather it is a small language for selecting columns in a data frame or tibble. Many packages in the following chapters support this language, so rather than describing it in each chapter, I decided to put a description in its own chapter, and this is as good a place as any. We cannot, however, use the language without functionality from packages that are described in later chapters, so I will use the ...

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