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Doug Fir
Doug Fir

Reputation: 21204

use if() to use select() within a dplyr pipe chain

Read these two posts already:

I'm using Shiny input$selector and if the user has selected a particular value, I want my dataframe to be different than otherwise.

Here's a chain:

  filtered_funnel <-  reactive({
    lastmonth_funnel %>%
      filter(input$channel == "All" | Channel == input$channel) %>%
      filter(input$promo == "All" | Promo == input$promo) %>%

      ## HERE IS WHERE I'M STRUGGLING
      {if(input$promo != "none") select(., c("Channel", "Promo", "ShippingDetails", "Checkout", "Transactions"))} %>%


      gather(Funnel, Sessions, -Channel, -Promo) %>%
      group_by(Channel, Promo, Funnel) %>%
      summarise(Sessions = sum(Sessions))
  })

If the user input does not equal "none" I would like to select variables "Channel", "Promo", "ShippingDetails", "Checkout" and "Transactions".

I tried a few variations of the problem line above but kept getting errors:

When I tried this within the pipe chain 

{if(input$promo != "none") select(., c("Channel", "Promo", "ShippingDetails", "Checkout", "Transactions"))} %>%

I received this error:

Warning: Error in : All select() inputs must resolve to integer column positions. The following do not: * c("Channel", "Promo", "ShippingDetails", "Checkout", "Transactions")

I also tried:

{if(input$promo != "none") select(., c(Channel, Promo, ShippingDetails, Checkout:Transactions))} %>%

This actually runs till I select "none" in the input, in which case I get

Error in : is.character(x) is not TRUE

I got the same error when I tried this:

{ifelse(input$promo != "none", select(., c(Channel, Promo, ShippingDetails, Checkout:Transactions)), .)} %>%

How can I nest in a dplyr pipe chain a select statement that says if input$promo != "none" then select Channel, Promo, ShippingDetails, Checkout:Transactions from the passed object in the pipe?

-- Here's dput of the randomly generated data--

> dput(lastmonth_funnel)
structure(list(Channel = c("Facebook", "Youtube", "SEM", "Organic", 
"Direct", "Email", "Facebook", "Youtube", "SEM", "Organic", "Direct", 
"Email", "Facebook", "Youtube", "SEM", "Organic", "Direct", "Email", 
"Facebook", "Youtube", "SEM", "Organic", "Direct", "Email", "Facebook", 
"Youtube", "SEM", "Organic", "Direct", "Email"), Promo = c("none", 
"none", "none", "none", "none", "none", "banannas", "banannas", 
"banannas", "banannas", "banannas", "banannas", "carrots", "carrots", 
"carrots", "carrots", "carrots", "carrots", "pears", "pears", 
"pears", "pears", "pears", "pears", "apples", "apples", "apples", 
"apples", "apples", "apples"), Sessions = c(6587, 3015, 6316, 
11219, 8117, 6473, 12464, 14032, 14318, 17535, 16219, 7838, 10685, 
12040, 19907, 13694, 6187, 16784, 21425, 18890, 24891, 16251, 
16977, 25206, 28573, 18704, 29178, 22069, 39687, 53734), AddToCart = c(279, 
4955, 5636, 8991, 15530, 18374, 9431, 5980, 4852, 5412, 4114, 
1782, 370, 3208, 6311, 9760, 7428, 6792, 3500, 5446, 1507, 783, 
2032, 833, 397, 2760, 5784, 9810, 13274, 14470), Registrations = c(194, 
3210, 3573, 6067, 10305, 12653, 6564, 3874, 3076, 3652, 2730, 
1227, 257, 2078, 4001, 6586, 4929, 4677, 2436, 3528, 955, 528, 
1348, 573, 276, 1788, 3667, 6620, 8808, 9964), ShippingDetails = c(134, 
2235, 2593, 4266, 7408, 9244, 4557, 2698, 2232, 2568, 1962, 896, 
178, 1447, 2904, 4631, 3543, 3417, 1691, 2457, 693, 371, 969, 
418, 191, 1245, 2661, 4655, 6332, 7280), Checkout = c(90, 1436, 
1792, 2864, 4672, 5666, 3078, 1734, 1543, 1724, 1237, 549, 120, 
930, 2007, 3109, 2234, 2094, 1142, 1579, 479, 249, 611, 256, 
129, 800, 1839, 3125, 3993, 4462), Transactions = c(59, 937, 
1192, 1819, 2602, 2926, 2039, 1132, 1026, 1095, 689, 283, 79, 
607, 1335, 1975, 1244, 1081, 756, 1031, 318, 158, 340, 132, 85, 
522, 1223, 1985, 2224, 2304)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-30L), .Names = c("Channel", "Promo", "Sessions", "AddToCart", 
"Registrations", "ShippingDetails", "Checkout", "Transactions"
))

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4708

Answers (1)

Axeman
Axeman

Reputation: 35187

You need to make sure that your statement between { returns a data.frame regardless of the condition. So you need an else ..

cond <- FALSE

mtcars %>% 
  group_by(cyl) %>% 
  { if (cond) filter(., am == 1) else . } %>% 
  summarise(m = mean(wt))

Works fine with TRUE or FALSE.

(Also note that a simple example like this really makes the question a lot more easy to grasp.)

With R's native pipe, you can use this somewhat akward anonomous function:

mtcars |>
  group_by(cyl) |>
  (\(d) if (cond) filter(d, am == 1) else d)() |>
  summarise(m = mean(wt))

Upvotes: 18

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