count_ids: Count the number of unique ID's

In brad-cannell/my_functions: This Repository Is A Random Smattering Of Functions I Wrote For Myself - You Can Use Them Too

Description

This function returns a value representing the number of unique values for a given variable as a nicely formatted value. In input variable could be any variable, however, the intent is for it to be a variable that identifies each unit of observation in the data (ID variable).

Usage

count_ids(x, description = "values", ...)

Arguments

x	A variable (vector). Typically an ID variable.
description	A character string that describes the unit of observation in the return value (e.g., "women", "participants", "schools", "cities"). The default is "values".
...	Additional arguments

Value

A character string

Examples

df <- tibble::tibble(
  id = rep(1:5, 2),
  x = rnorm(10)
)

count_ids(df$id)

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