Other Verbs

Here are some other useful data wrangling verbs:

•  select(): This selects only a subset of variables/columns.

• rename(): This renames variables/columns to have new names.

•  top_n(): This returns only the top n values of a variable.

Select variables

We’ve seen that the flights data frame in the nycflights13 package contains 19 different variables. We can identify the names of these 19 variables by running the glimpse() function from the dplyr package: