unnest_longer: Unnest a list-column of vectors into regular columns

In tidytable: Tidy Interface to 'data.table'

Unnest a list-column of vectors into regular columns

Description

Turns each element of a list-column into a row.

Usage

unnest_longer(
  .df,
  col,
  values_to = NULL,
  indices_to = NULL,
  indices_include = NULL,
  keep_empty = FALSE,
  names_repair = "check_unique",
  simplify = NULL,
  ptype = NULL,
  transform = NULL
)

Arguments

.df	A data.table or data.frame
col	Column to unnest
values_to	Name of column to store values
indices_to	Name of column to store indices
indices_include	Should an index column be included? Defaults to TRUE when col has inner names.
keep_empty	Return NA for any NULL elements of the list column
names_repair	Treatment of duplicate names. See ?vctrs::vec_as_names for options/details.
simplify	Currently not supported. Errors if not NULL.
ptype	Optionally a named list of ptypes declaring the desired output type of each component.
transform	Optionally a named list of transformation functions applied to each component.

Examples

df <- tidytable(
  x = 1:3,
  y = list(0, 1:3, 4:5)
)

df %>% unnest_longer(y)

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