order_cols: Re-order columns of a data frame
In svenhalvorson/SvenSFPS: Sven's R Jiggering

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) Examples

order_cols takes in a data frame and reorders the columns specified by .... If front is TRUE specified columns are placed before unspecified ones, otherwise they are after unspecified columms.

1	order_cols(df, ..., front = TRUE)

`df`	a data frame
`...`	unquoted column names in `df`
`front`	a logical value. Should ... be placed before unspecified columns?

If all columns in df are specified, df is returned with columns in that order.

df with its columns reordered

See order_cols_q for a quoted version.

Sven Halvorson (svenedmail@gmail.com)

# We'll demonstrate reorder here
library("dplyr")
df = data.frame(a = 1:4,
                b = letters[4:7],
                c = rnorm(n = 4),
                d = rchisq(n = 4, df = 3),
                e = c("Salty", "Sweet", "Subtle", "Sweaty"),
                stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
df
order_cols(df, d, e)
order_cols(df, a, b, front = FALSE)

# Use with pipes
library("dplyr")
df 
  filter(nchar(e)>5) 
  order_cols(e,a)