Import your data

data(flights)

flights %>% skimr::skim()
Data summary
Name Piped data
Number of rows 336776
Number of columns 19
_______________________
Column type frequency:
character 4
numeric 14
POSIXct 1
________________________
Group variables None

Variable type: character

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate min max empty n_unique whitespace
carrier 0 1.00 2 2 0 16 0
tailnum 2512 0.99 5 6 0 4043 0
origin 0 1.00 3 3 0 3 0
dest 0 1.00 3 3 0 105 0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate mean sd p0 p25 p50 p75 p100 hist
year 0 1.00 2013.00 0.00 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 ▁▁▇▁▁
month 0 1.00 6.55 3.41 1 4 7 10 12 ▇▆▆▆▇
day 0 1.00 15.71 8.77 1 8 16 23 31 ▇▇▇▇▆
dep_time 8255 0.98 1349.11 488.28 1 907 1401 1744 2400 ▁▇▆▇▃
sched_dep_time 0 1.00 1344.25 467.34 106 906 1359 1729 2359 ▁▇▇▇▃
dep_delay 8255 0.98 12.64 40.21 -43 -5 -2 11 1301 ▇▁▁▁▁
arr_time 8713 0.97 1502.05 533.26 1 1104 1535 1940 2400 ▁▃▇▇▇
sched_arr_time 0 1.00 1536.38 497.46 1 1124 1556 1945 2359 ▁▃▇▇▇
arr_delay 9430 0.97 6.90 44.63 -86 -17 -5 14 1272 ▇▁▁▁▁
flight 0 1.00 1971.92 1632.47 1 553 1496 3465 8500 ▇▃▃▁▁
air_time 9430 0.97 150.69 93.69 20 82 129 192 695 ▇▂▂▁▁
distance 0 1.00 1039.91 733.23 17 502 872 1389 4983 ▇▃▂▁▁
hour 0 1.00 13.18 4.66 1 9 13 17 23 ▁▇▇▇▅
minute 0 1.00 26.23 19.30 0 8 29 44 59 ▇▃▆▃▅

Variable type: POSIXct

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate min max median n_unique
time_hour 0 1 2013-01-01 05:00:00 2013-12-31 23:00:00 2013-07-03 10:00:00 6936

Create Data frame functions

Example 1: count columns

code snippets

ncol_num <- flights %>%
    
    # Select a type of variables
    select(where(is.numeric)) %>%
    
    # Count columns
    ncol()

ncol_num
## [1] 14

Turn them into a function

count_ncol_numeric <- function(.data) {
    
    # body
    ncol_num <- .data %>%
    
    # Select a type of variables
    select(where(is.numeric)) %>%
    
    # Count columns
    ncol()

    # return the new variable
    return(ncol_num)

}

flights %>% count_ncol_numeric()
## [1] 14
flights %>% .[1:10, -1:-13] %>% count_ncol_numeric()
## [1] 4

Adding arguments for details of operation

count_ncol_type <- function(.data, type_data = "numeric") {
    
    # if statement for type of variables
    if(type_data == "numeric") {
         # body
         ncol_type <- .data %>%
    
    # Select a type of variables
    select(where(is.numeric)) %>%
    
    # Count columns
    ncol()
    
    } else if (type_data == "character") {
        # body
         ncol_type <- .data %>%
    
          # Select a type of variables
           select(where(is.character)) %>%
    
          # Count columns
           ncol()
    }
    
    # return the new variable
    return(ncol_type)

}

flights %>% count_ncol_type()
## [1] 14
flights %>% count_ncol_type(type_data = "character")
## [1] 4
flights %>% .[1:10, 1:5] %>% count_ncol_type(type_data = "character")
## [1] 0

Example 2: count rows

code snippets

nrow_num <- flights %>%
    
    # filter rows that meet a condition
    filter(carrier == "DL") %>%
    
    # Count rows
    nrow()

nrow_num
## [1] 48110

Turn them into a function

count_num_flights_by_carrier <- function(.data, carrier_name){
    
    # body
        nrow_num <- .data %>%
        
        # filter rows that meet a condition
        filter(carrier == carrier_name) %>%
        
        # Count rows
        nrow()

    # return the new variable
    return(nrow_num)
}
flights %>% .[1:10, "carrier"] %>% count_num_flights_by_carrier(carrier_name = "AA")
## [1] 2

Example 3: count rows

Create your own.

data(mpg)

mpg %>% skimr::skim()
Data summary
Name Piped data
Number of rows 234
Number of columns 11
_______________________
Column type frequency:
character 6
numeric 5
________________________
Group variables None

Variable type: character

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate min max empty n_unique whitespace
manufacturer 0 1 4 10 0 15 0
model 0 1 2 22 0 38 0
trans 0 1 8 10 0 10 0
drv 0 1 1 1 0 3 0
fl 0 1 1 1 0 5 0
class 0 1 3 10 0 7 0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate mean sd p0 p25 p50 p75 p100 hist
displ 0 1 3.47 1.29 1.6 2.4 3.3 4.6 7 ▇▆▆▃▁
year 0 1 2003.50 4.51 1999.0 1999.0 2003.5 2008.0 2008 ▇▁▁▁▇
cyl 0 1 5.89 1.61 4.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 8 ▇▁▇▁▇
cty 0 1 16.86 4.26 9.0 14.0 17.0 19.0 35 ▆▇▃▁▁
hwy 0 1 23.44 5.95 12.0 18.0 24.0 27.0 44 ▅▅▇▁▁

code snippets

nrow_num <- mpg %>%
    
    # filter rows that meet a condition
    filter(manufacturer == "subaru") %>%
    
    # Count rows
    nrow()

nrow_num
## [1] 14

Turn them into a function

count_num_mpg_by_manufacturer <- function(.data, manufacturer_name){
    
    # body
        nrow_num <- .data %>%
        
        # filter rows that meet a condition
        filter(manufacturer == manufacturer_name) %>%
        
        # Count rows
        nrow()

    # return the new variable
    return(nrow_num)
}
mpg %>% .[1:10, "manufacturer"] %>% count_num_mpg_by_manufacturer(manufacturer_name = "audi")
## [1] 10