unnest_fun: Unnest a list-column

In thisutils: Collection of Utility Functions for Data Analysis and Computing

Unnest a list-column

Description

Implement similar functions to the tidyr::unnest function.

Usage

unnest_fun(data, cols, keep_empty = FALSE)

Arguments

data	A data frame.
cols	Columns to unnest.
keep_empty	By default, you get one row of output for each element of the list your unchopping/unnesting. This means that if there's a size-0 element (like NULL or an empty data frame), that entire row will be dropped from the output. If you want to preserve all rows, use keep_empty = TRUE to replace size-0 elements with a single row of missing values.

Examples

data <- data.frame(
  id = 1:3,
  x = c("a", "b", "c"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)
data$data <- list(
  c(1, 2),
  c(3, 4, 5),
  c(6)
)
unnest_fun(data, cols = "data")

data2 <- data.frame(
  id = 1:3,
  x = c("a", "b", "c"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)
data2$data <- list(
  c(1, 2),
  numeric(0),
  c(6)
)
unnest_fun(data2, cols = "data")
unnest_fun(data2, cols = "data", keep_empty = TRUE)

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