Import your data

data("mtcars")
mtcars <- as_tibble(mtcars)

Repeat the same operation over different columns of a data frame

Case of numeric variables

mtcars %>% map_dbl(.x = ., .f = ~mean(x = .x))
##        mpg        cyl       disp         hp       drat         wt       qsec 
##  20.090625   6.187500 230.721875 146.687500   3.596563   3.217250  17.848750 
##         vs         am       gear       carb 
##   0.437500   0.406250   3.687500   2.812500
mtcars %>% map_dbl(.f = ~mean(x = .x))
##        mpg        cyl       disp         hp       drat         wt       qsec 
##  20.090625   6.187500 230.721875 146.687500   3.596563   3.217250  17.848750 
##         vs         am       gear       carb 
##   0.437500   0.406250   3.687500   2.812500
mtcars %>% map_dbl(mean)
##        mpg        cyl       disp         hp       drat         wt       qsec 
##  20.090625   6.187500 230.721875 146.687500   3.596563   3.217250  17.848750 
##         vs         am       gear       carb 
##   0.437500   0.406250   3.687500   2.812500
# Adding an argument 
mtcars %>% map_dbl(.x = ., .f = ~mean(x = .x, trim = 0.1))
##         mpg         cyl        disp          hp        drat          wt 
##  19.6961538   6.2307692 222.5230769 141.1923077   3.5792308   3.1526923 
##        qsec          vs          am        gear        carb 
##  17.8276923   0.4230769   0.3846154   3.6153846   2.6538462
mtcars %>% map_dbl(mean, trim = 0.1)
##         mpg         cyl        disp          hp        drat          wt 
##  19.6961538   6.2307692 222.5230769 141.1923077   3.5792308   3.1526923 
##        qsec          vs          am        gear        carb 
##  17.8276923   0.4230769   0.3846154   3.6153846   2.6538462
mtcars %>% select(.data = ., mpg)
## # A tibble: 32 × 1
##      mpg
##    <dbl>
##  1  21  
##  2  21  
##  3  22.8
##  4  21.4
##  5  18.7
##  6  18.1
##  7  14.3
##  8  24.4
##  9  22.8
## 10  19.2
## # ℹ 22 more rows
mtcars %>% select(mpg)
## # A tibble: 32 × 1
##      mpg
##    <dbl>
##  1  21  
##  2  21  
##  3  22.8
##  4  21.4
##  5  18.7
##  6  18.1
##  7  14.3
##  8  24.4
##  9  22.8
## 10  19.2
## # ℹ 22 more rows

Create your own function

# Double values in columns 
double_by_factor <- function(x, factor) {x * factor}
10 %>% double_by_factor(factor = 2)
## [1] 20
mtcars %>% map_dfr(.x = ., .f = ~double_by_factor(x = .x, factor = 10))
## # A tibble: 32 × 11
##      mpg   cyl  disp    hp  drat    wt  qsec    vs    am  gear  carb
##    <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
##  1   210    60  1600  1100  39    26.2  165.     0    10    40    40
##  2   210    60  1600  1100  39    28.8  170.     0    10    40    40
##  3   228    40  1080   930  38.5  23.2  186.    10    10    40    10
##  4   214    60  2580  1100  30.8  32.2  194.    10     0    30    10
##  5   187    80  3600  1750  31.5  34.4  170.     0     0    30    20
##  6   181    60  2250  1050  27.6  34.6  202.    10     0    30    10
##  7   143    80  3600  2450  32.1  35.7  158.     0     0    30    40
##  8   244    40  1467   620  36.9  31.9  200     10     0    40    20
##  9   228    40  1408   950  39.2  31.5  229     10     0    40    20
## 10   192    60  1676  1230  39.2  34.4  183     10     0    40    40
## # ℹ 22 more rows
mtcars %>% map_dfr(double_by_factor, factor = 10)
## # A tibble: 32 × 11
##      mpg   cyl  disp    hp  drat    wt  qsec    vs    am  gear  carb
##    <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
##  1   210    60  1600  1100  39    26.2  165.     0    10    40    40
##  2   210    60  1600  1100  39    28.8  170.     0    10    40    40
##  3   228    40  1080   930  38.5  23.2  186.    10    10    40    10
##  4   214    60  2580  1100  30.8  32.2  194.    10     0    30    10
##  5   187    80  3600  1750  31.5  34.4  170.     0     0    30    20
##  6   181    60  2250  1050  27.6  34.6  202.    10     0    30    10
##  7   143    80  3600  2450  32.1  35.7  158.     0     0    30    40
##  8   244    40  1467   620  36.9  31.9  200     10     0    40    20
##  9   228    40  1408   950  39.2  31.5  229     10     0    40    20
## 10   192    60  1676  1230  39.2  34.4  183     10     0    40    40
## # ℹ 22 more rows

Repeat the same operation over different elements of a list

When you have a grouping variable (factor)

mtcars %>% lm(formula = mpg ~ wt, data = .)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = mpg ~ wt, data = .)
## 
## Coefficients:
## (Intercept)           wt  
##      37.285       -5.344
mtcars %>% distinct(cyl)
## # A tibble: 3 × 1
##     cyl
##   <dbl>
## 1     6
## 2     4
## 3     8
reg_coeff_tbl <- mtcars %>% 
    
    # Split it into a list of data frames 
    split(.$cyl) %>% 
    
    # Repeat regression over each group 
    map(~lm(formula = mpg ~ wt, data = .x)) %>% 
    
    # Extract coefficients from regression results
    map(broom::tidy, conf.int = TRUE) %>% 
    
    # Convert to tibble 
    bind_rows(.id = "cyl") %>% 
    
    # Filter for wt coefficients 
    filter(term == "wt")
reg_coeff_tbl %>% 
    
    mutate(estimate = -estimate, 
           conf.low = -conf.low,
           conf.high = - conf.high) %>% 
    
    ggplot(aes(x = estimate, y = cyl)) + 
    geom_point() + 
    geom_errorbar(aes(xmin = conf.low, xmax = conf.high))

Create your own

Choose either one of the two cases above and apply it to your data

Import Data

life_expectancy <- readr::read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/main/data/2023/2023-12-05/life_expectancy.csv')
## Rows: 20755 Columns: 4
## ── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
## Delimiter: ","
## chr (2): Entity, Code
## dbl (2): Year, LifeExpectancy
## 
## ℹ Use `spec()` to retrieve the full column specification for this data.
## ℹ Specify the column types or set `show_col_types = FALSE` to quiet this message.
life_expectancy
## # A tibble: 20,755 × 4
##    Entity      Code   Year LifeExpectancy
##    <chr>       <chr> <dbl>          <dbl>
##  1 Afghanistan AFG    1950           27.7
##  2 Afghanistan AFG    1951           28.0
##  3 Afghanistan AFG    1952           28.4
##  4 Afghanistan AFG    1953           28.9
##  5 Afghanistan AFG    1954           29.2
##  6 Afghanistan AFG    1955           29.9
##  7 Afghanistan AFG    1956           30.4
##  8 Afghanistan AFG    1957           30.9
##  9 Afghanistan AFG    1958           31.5
## 10 Afghanistan AFG    1959           32.0
## # ℹ 20,745 more rows
life_expectancy %>% map_dbl(mean, na.rm = TRUE)
## Warning in mean.default(.x[[i]], ...): argument is not numeric or logical:
## returning NA
## Warning in mean.default(.x[[i]], ...): argument is not numeric or logical:
## returning NA
##         Entity           Code           Year LifeExpectancy 
##             NA             NA     1975.73023       61.61799

life expectancy means:

Entity: NA Code: NA Year 1975.73023 LifeExpectancy: 61.61799