pull {tidytable}

Pull out a single variable

Description

Pull a single variable from a data.table as a vector.

Usage

pull(.df, var = -1, name = NULL)

Arguments

.df

A data.frame or data.table

var

The column to pull from the data.table as:

• a variable name

• a positive integer giving the column position

• a negative integer giving the column position counting from the right

name

Optional - specifies the column to be used as names for the vector.

Examples

df <- data.table(
  x = 1:3,
  y = 1:3
)

# Grab column by name
df %>%
  pull(y)

# Grab column by position
df %>%
  pull(1)

# Defaults to last column
df %>%
  pull()