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Introduction

Provide a Python to R translation of 30 essential Pandas methods introduced by Avi Chawla in The Only 30 Methods You Should Master To Become A Pandas Pro published on TowardsDataScience.

Set up

# enable python in RMarkdown
library(reticulate)

Create the dataframe in Python

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2], 
                   [5, 8], 
                   [3, 9]], 
                  columns = ["col1", "col2"])

print(df)
   col1  col2
0     1     2
1     5     8
2     3     9

Load the dataframe into R

df <- py$df #access df as saved in Python(py) above

df <- data.frame(
  col1 = c(1,5,3),
  col2 = c(2,8,9)
)

print(df)
  col1 col2
1    1    2
2    5    8
3    3    9

Method #24. Apply A Function to A Dataframe

Python

In Python, we can use apply() to apply a function to a dataframe. Let’s define a simple function first.

# create a function to be applied
def add_cols(row):
  return row.col1 + row.col2

Let’s apply the function to all the columns in a datafarme

df['col3'] = df.apply(add_cols, axis = 1)
df
   col1  col2  col3
0     1     2     3
1     5     8    13
2     3     9    12

Or we could only apply a function to one particular columns in a dataframe.

def square_col(num):
  return num**2

df['col3']=df.col2.apply(square_col)
df
   col1  col2  col3
0     1     2     4
1     5     8    64
2     3     9    81

R

In R, we could use lapply() in dplyr package to apply a custom function to all values in a dataframe, note that the results are in multiple lists rather than one dataframe.

library(dplyr)

square_col = function(num){
  return (num^2)
}

df2 = df |> lapply(FUN=square_col)
df2 |> str() #lapply returns result in lists
List of 2
 $ col1: num [1:3] 1 25 9
 $ col2: num [1:3] 4 64 81
df2 |> data.frame() |> str() # transform the lists into a dataframe
'data.frame':   3 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ col1: num  1 25 9
 $ col2: num  4 64 81

We can use the map_df() function in purrr() package to do the similar task but generate a dataframe (tibble) directly. What is a tibble? You might be wondering. well, think of it basically as a dataframe, just even nicer. Read more about it here if interested.

library(purrr)

df |> map_df(square_col) 
# A tibble: 3 × 2
   col1  col2
  <dbl> <dbl>
1     1     4
2    25    64
3     9    81

To apply a function to one column to create a new column without changing the existing column itself, the suitable mapping method depends on the type of output. When the output is a numeric column, use map_dbl(), whereas when the output is a character column, use map_chr(). Below please see an example for map_dbl(), and more illustrations are available here. For other ways to create new columns in Pandas and R, please refer to method 17.

df['col3'] = df[['col2']] |> map_dbl(square_col)
df
  col1 col2 col3
1    1    2    4
2    5    8   64
3    3    9   81

In contrast, if we want to apply a function to change a subset of columns in a dataframe, we could simply apply select() function before mapping the function to the dataframe.

df |> select(col2) |> map_df(square_col)
# A tibble: 3 × 1
   col2
  <dbl>
1     4
2    64
3    81

sessionInfo()
R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default

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[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C                      
[5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.utf8    

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