Convenience function to paste together multiple columns into one.
Arguments
- data
A data frame.
- col
The name of the new column, as a string or symbol.
This argument is passed by expression and supports quasiquotation (you can unquote strings and symbols). The name is captured from the expression with
rlang::ensym()(note that this kind of interface where symbols do not represent actual objects is now discouraged in the tidyverse; we support it here for backward compatibility).- ...
<
tidy-select> Columns to unite- sep
Separator to use between values.
- remove
If
TRUE, remove input columns from output data frame.- na.rm
If
TRUE, missing values will be removed prior to uniting each value.
See also
separate(), the complement.
Examples
data(pbmc_small)
pbmc_small |> unite(
col="new_col",
c("orig.ident", "groups"))
#> # A Seurat-tibble abstraction: 80 × 14
#> # Features=230 | Cells=80 | Active assay=RNA | Assays=RNA
#> .cell new_col nCount_RNA nFeature_RNA RNA_snn_res.0.8 letter.idents
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <int> <fct> <fct>
#> 1 ATGCCAGAACGACT SeuratP… 70 47 0 A
#> 2 CATGGCCTGTGCAT SeuratP… 85 52 0 A
#> 3 GAACCTGATGAACC SeuratP… 87 50 1 B
#> 4 TGACTGGATTCTCA SeuratP… 127 56 0 A
#> 5 AGTCAGACTGCACA SeuratP… 173 53 0 A
#> 6 TCTGATACACGTGT SeuratP… 70 48 0 A
#> 7 TGGTATCTAAACAG SeuratP… 64 36 0 A
#> 8 GCAGCTCTGTTTCT SeuratP… 72 45 0 A
#> 9 GATATAACACGCAT SeuratP… 52 36 0 A
#> 10 AATGTTGACAGTCA SeuratP… 100 41 0 A
#> # ℹ 70 more rows
#> # ℹ 8 more variables: RNA_snn_res.1 <fct>, PC_1 <dbl>, PC_2 <dbl>, PC_3 <dbl>,
#> # PC_4 <dbl>, PC_5 <dbl>, tSNE_1 <dbl>, tSNE_2 <dbl>