{"id":15618,"date":"2020-04-04T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T10:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/?p=15618"},"modified":"2020-04-04T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T10:08:32","slug":"dplyr-how-to-change-the-order-of-columns-in-data-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/blog\/dplyr-how-to-change-the-order-of-columns-in-data-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"dplyr: How to Change the Order of Columns in Data Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rdoc\">\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n<p>dplyr v&gt;=1.0.0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>library(dplyr)\r\n# Data preparation\r\ndf &lt;- tibble(w = 0:2, x = 1:3, \r\n             y = c(\"a\", \"b\", \"c\"), \r\n             z = c(\"d\", \"e\", \"f\"))\r\ndf<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 3 x 4\r\n##       w     x y     z    \r\n##   &lt;int&gt; &lt;int&gt; &lt;chr&gt; &lt;chr&gt;\r\n## 1     0     1 a     d    \r\n## 2     1     2 b     e    \r\n## 3     2     3 c     f<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Relocate columns to the left hand side\r\ndf %&gt;% relocate(y, z)<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 3 x 4\r\n##   y     z         w     x\r\n##   &lt;chr&gt; &lt;chr&gt; &lt;int&gt; &lt;int&gt;\r\n## 1 a     d         0     1\r\n## 2 b     e         1     2\r\n## 3 c     f         2     3<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Move columns to a different position\r\n# Relocate after a specific column\r\ndf %&gt;% relocate(w, .after = y)<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 3 x 4\r\n##       x y         w z    \r\n##   &lt;int&gt; &lt;chr&gt; &lt;int&gt; &lt;chr&gt;\r\n## 1     1 a         0 d    \r\n## 2     2 b         1 e    \r\n## 3     3 c         2 f<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Relocate before a specific column\r\ndf %&gt;% relocate(w, .before = y)<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 3 x 4\r\n##       x     w y     z    \r\n##   &lt;int&gt; &lt;int&gt; &lt;chr&gt; &lt;chr&gt;\r\n## 1     1     0 a     d    \r\n## 2     2     1 b     e    \r\n## 3     3     2 c     f<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Move columns to the right hand side use `last_col()`\r\ndf %&gt;% relocate(w, .after = last_col())<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>## # A tibble: 3 x 4\r\n##       x y     z         w\r\n##   &lt;int&gt; &lt;chr&gt; &lt;chr&gt; &lt;int&gt;\r\n## 1     1 a     d         0\r\n## 2     2 b     e         1\r\n## 3     3 c     f         2<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requirements: dplyr v&gt;=1.0.0 library(dplyr) # Data preparation df &lt;- tibble(w = 0:2, x = 1:3, y = c(&#8220;a&#8221;, &#8220;b&#8221;, &#8220;c&#8221;), z = c(&#8220;d&#8221;, &#8220;e&#8221;, &#8220;f&#8221;)) df ## # A tibble: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rating_form_position":"","rating_results_position":"","mr_structured_data_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[359,357,358],"class_list":["post-15618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","tag-data-manipulation","tag-dplyr","tag-tidyverse"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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