coalesce_data {tidyplus}

Coalesce Data

Description

Coalesce values in multiple columns by finding the first non-missing value at each position. Coalesced columns are removed.

Usage

coalesce_data(x, coalesce = list(), quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A data frame.

coalesce

A uniquely named list of character vectors where the names are the new column names and the values are the names of the columns to coalesce. If a single value is provided for a column it is treated as a regular expression.

quiet

A flag specifying whether to provide messages.

Details

Coalescence is performed in the order specified in the coalesce argument such that a column produced by coalescence can be further coalesced.

Value

The original data frame with one or more columns coalesced into a new column.

See Also

dplyr::coalesce()

Examples

data <- data.frame(x = c(1, NA, NA), y = c(NA, 3, NA), z = c(7, 8, 9), a = c(4, 5, 6))
coalesce_data(data, list(b = c("x", "y")), quiet = TRUE)
coalesce_data(data, list(z = c("y", "x"), d = c("z", "a")))