Import your data

data(flights)
data("airports")

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 
airports %>% skimr::skim()
Data summary
Name Piped data
Number of rows 1458
Number of columns 8
_______________________
Column type frequency:
character 4
numeric 4
________________________
Group variables None

Variable type: character

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate min max empty n_unique whitespace
faa 0 1 3 3 0 1458 0
name 0 1 4 51 0 1440 0
dst 0 1 1 1 0 3 0
tzone 3 1 14 19 0 9 0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable n_missing complete_rate mean sd p0 p25 p50 p75 p100 hist
lat 0 1 41.65 10.45 19.72 34.26 40.09 45.07 72.27 ▂▇▆▂▁
lon 0 1 -103.39 29.84 -176.65 -119.19 -94.66 -82.52 174.11 ▅▇▁▁▁
alt 0 1 1001.42 1523.63 -54.00 70.25 473.00 1062.50 9078.00 ▇▁▁▁▁
tz 0 1 -6.52 1.62 -10.00 -8.00 -6.00 -5.00 8.00 ▆▇▁▁▁

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) {
    
        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.numeric)) %>%
                
            # Count columns
            ncol()
    }
    
    # return the new variable 
    return(ncol_num)
    
}

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

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 = "UA")
## [1] 3

Example 3: count rows

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

ncol_num
## [1] 4

code snippets

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

airports %>% count_ncol_numeric()
## [1] 4
airports %>% .[1:10, 1:5] %>% count_ncol_numeric()
## [1] 3

Turn them into a function

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.numeric)) %>%
                
            # Count columns
            ncol()
    }
    
    # return the new variable 
    return(ncol_num)
    
}

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