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How do I pipe into or include an additional argument within a list of quosures?


I have a list of quosures in my_q_list below:

library(rlang)
suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))

q_list <- function(...) {
  enquos(...)
}

my_q_list <- q_list(
  select(mpg, hp),
  filter(hp > 20),
  mutate(mpg2 = mpg*2)
)

my_q_list
#> <list_of<quosure>>
#> 
#> [[1]]
#> <quosure>
#> expr: ^select(mpg, hp)
#> env:  global
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> <quosure>
#> expr: ^filter(hp > 20)
#> env:  global
#> 
#> [[3]]
#> <quosure>
#> expr: ^mutate(mpg2 = mpg * 2)
#> env:  global

Created on 2020-07-01 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Using rlang and purrr, how do I pipe the mtcars dataset into this list and evaluate each expression, returning a list of three data frames?


Solution

  • One approach is to use quosure arithmetic:

    purrr::map( my_q_list, ~quo( mtcars %>% !!.x ) ) %>%       # Construct desired quosures
        purrr::map( quo_squash ) %>%                           # Simplify them
        purrr::map( eval_tidy )                                # Evaluate them