All,
I would like to figure out how to pass variable names to the dplyr function
mutate. For example, this works because hp is one of the variable names on
mtcars:
mutate(mtcars, scale(hp))
Let's says I want to pass in the target variable instead of hard-coding the
name, as follows:
target <- "hp"
mutate(mtcars, scale(target))
That dones't work. I read somewhere about using lapply, but that suggestion
didn't work for me either:
target <- lapply("hp", as.symbol)
mutate(mtcars, scale(target))
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Roger
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