25.11 Tidy evaluation and embracing
- Tidy evaluation makes our data analyses very concise as you never have to say which data frame a variable comes from, but the downside comes when we want to wrap up repeated tidyverse code into a function.
- Our solution to overcome to this problem called embracing 🤗. Embracing a variable means to wrap it in braces so (e.g.)
var
becomes{{ var }}
.
grouped_mean <- function(df, group_var, mean_var) {
df |>
group_by({{ group_var }}) |>
summarize(mean({{ mean_var }}))
}
df |>
grouped_mean(group, x)
## # A tibble: 1 × 2
## group `mean(x)`
## <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 1 10