Is there a function like tail for columns in tibbles?

Question

I have a tibble with more than 20 columns, so when I view it in the console, only 20 columns will be shown and one will be summarized below the head of the tibble even when I maximize the window.

Is there a function like tail() for columns that shows only the last n columns?

Answer 1

I believe you are looking for tidy select helper last_col() which by itself brings the last column however per the dplyr site https://tidyselect.r-lib.org/reference/everything.html you can also have an offset in this to count backwards from the last column.

This is used with select()

#returns second to last column

mtcars%>% select(last_col(1))

#pulls in last col and second to last col
## interesting that it is base 0

mtcars%>% select(last_col(0:1))