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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({'col1': [1,5,3],
                   'col2': [8,4,10],
                   'col3': ['A','B','B']})
df
   col1  col2 col3
0     1     8    A
1     5     4    B
2     3    10    B

load it in R

df <- py$df
df
  col1 col2 col3
1    1    8    A
2    5    4    B
3    3   10    B

Method #19. Filtering a DataFrame2: Getting Columns

Python

For example, when we want to select col2 in the above dataframe.

df['col2']
0     8
1     4
2    10
Name: col2, dtype: int64

Or when you want to select multiple columns together, just specify them as a list.

df[['col1','col3']]
   col1 col3
0     1    A
1     5    B
2     3    B

R

To do this in R, we can use the select() function

library(dplyr)

df |>  select(col2) # select col2
  col2
1    8
2    4
3   10
df |>  select(col1, col3) # select co1 and col3
  col1 col3
1    1    A
2    5    B
3    3    B

Bonus: Select Columns by Conditions

Sometimes, we would want to select columns with certain characteristics

Select columns by string in names

First let’s change the column names.

df.columns = ['apple','app','orange'] # change column names
df
   apple  app orange
0      1    8      A
1      5    4      B
2      3   10      B

R

To select columns where names contain certain strings, we can simply add contains() function to the select call introduced above.

df = py$df #get the dataframe from python

df |> select(contains('app'))
  apple app
1     1   8
2     5   4
3     3  10

Python

To select columns where names contain certain strings, we can use the filter() method.

df.filter(like='app')
   apple  app
0      1    8
1      5    4
2      3   10

Special note for R users. In R, filter() is normally used to filter rows, whereas select() for columns. Here in Pandas, by default, filter() looks at columns of dataframes. But we can also set this to rows by specifying axis = 0

df.set_index(['orange'], inplace=True) # set index to be the 'orange' row
print(df.index)
Index(['A', 'B', 'B'], dtype='object', name='orange')
df.filter(like='B', axis=0) # filter df by index
        apple  app
orange            
B           5    4
B           3   10

Here index is used for filtering. To filter rows by values of variables, we can use the query() method in Python. See details in method #18

Select columns by data types

Python

To select columns by data types, we can use the select_dtypes method in python

df.dtypes #check data types
apple    int64
app      int64
dtype: object
df.select_dtypes(include = ['int64'])
        apple  app
orange            
A           1    8
B           5    4
B           3   10
df.select_dtypes(exclude = ['int64'])
Empty DataFrame
Columns: []
Index: [A, B, B]

R

To do this in R, simply add a where() in the select call introduced above.

str(df)#check data types
'data.frame':   3 obs. of  3 variables:
 $ apple : num  1 5 3
 $ app   : num  8 4 10
 $ orange: chr  "A" "B" "B"
 - attr(*, "pandas.index")=RangeIndex(start=0, stop=3, step=1)
df |> select(where(is.numeric))
  apple app
1     1   8
2     5   4
3     3  10
df |> select(-where(is.numeric))
  orange
1      A
2      B
3      B

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:
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