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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.read_csv("./data/df_method30.csv")

print(df)
    Name  Subject  Marks
0   John    Maths      6
1   Mark    Maths      5
2  Peter    Maths      3
3   John  Science      5
4   Mark  Science      8
5  Peter  Science     10
6   John  English     10
7   Mark  English      6
8  Peter  English      4

Load the dataframe into R

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

print(df)
   Name Subject Marks
1  John   Maths     6
2  Mark   Maths     5
3 Peter   Maths     3
4  John Science     5
5  Mark Science     8
6 Peter Science    10
7  John English    10
8  Mark English     6
9 Peter English     4

Method #30 Pivoting DataFrames

Python

In Python, pivot_table() can convert the column entries to column headers.

df_wider = pd.pivot_table(df, 
               index = ["Name"],
               columns=["Subject"], 
               values='Marks',
               fill_value=0)
print(df_wider)              
Subject  English  Maths  Science
Name                            
John          10      6        5
Mark           6      5        8
Peter          4      3       10

R

In R, this can be done with the pivot_wider() function.

library(tidyr)

df_wider = df |> 
  pivot_wider(id_cols=Name, 
              names_from=Subject, 
              values_from = Marks, 
              values_fill = 0)

print(df_wider)
# A tibble: 3 × 4
  Name  Maths Science English
  <chr> <dbl>   <dbl>   <dbl>
1 John      6       5      10
2 Mark      5       8       6
3 Peter     3      10       4

Bonus: Unpivoting

R

Above we used the pivot_wider() function to turn a table from long to wide. Naturally, we can reverse the process and turn a table from wide to long. And the function to do this is, you guessed it, pivot_longer() :P

df_wider |> 
  pivot_longer(cols = c(Maths, Science, English),
               names_to = "Subject",
               values_to = "Marks")
# A tibble: 9 × 3
  Name  Subject Marks
  <chr> <chr>   <dbl>
1 John  Maths       6
2 John  Science     5
3 John  English    10
4 Mark  Maths       5
5 Mark  Science     8
6 Mark  English     6
7 Peter Maths       3
8 Peter Science    10
9 Peter English     4

Python

Similar task can be done by the melt() method in Pandas.

df_wider.index # remember that "Name" is set as index above
Index(['John', 'Mark', 'Peter'], dtype='object', name='Name')
df_wider.melt(ignore_index = False, # use index as the id field
              value_vars=["Maths", "Science", "English"],
              value_name = "Marks")
       Subject  Marks
Name                 
John     Maths      6
Mark     Maths      5
Peter    Maths      3
John   Science      5
Mark   Science      8
Peter  Science     10
John   English     10
Mark   English      6
Peter  English      4

For dataframe where the index is not the id field we want to use, it is simple as well.

df_wider.reset_index(level=["Name"], inplace=True) # reset name to be a column
df_wider.melt(id_vars = "Name", # set id field manually
              value_vars=["Maths", "Science", "English"],
              value_name = "Marks")
    Name  Subject  Marks
0   John    Maths      6
1   Mark    Maths      5
2  Peter    Maths      3
3   John  Science      5
4   Mark  Science      8
5  Peter  Science     10
6   John  English     10
7   Mark  English      6
8  Peter  English      4

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

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.utf8  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C                      
[5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.utf8    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] tidyr_1.3.0     reticulate_1.30

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