We’re pleased to announce a new minor version of dplyr. This fixes a number of bugs that crashed R, and considerably improves the functionality of select()
. You can now use named arguments to rename existing variables, and use new functions starts_with()
, ends_with()
, contains()
, matches()
and num_range()
to select variables based on their names. Finally, select()
now makes a shallow copy, substantially reducing its memory impact. I’ve also added the summarize()
alias for people from countries who don’t spell correctly ;)
For a complete list of changes, please see the github release, and as always, you can install the latest version with install.packages("dplyr").