Pipeable summary functions

[AmeliaMN]

@hadley and I have talked a bit about nice, generic, pipeable summary functions. Because Hadley is Hadley, he has already sketched out an initial package, but it could use some more work on the visual aspects as well as what the functions would be.

My personal wishlist:

• mtcars %>% summary()
• mtcars %>% summary(cyl) (probably like mosaic tally())
• mtcars %>% summary(mpg) (like base summary() or mosaic favstats())

[hadley]

Oooh, yes, I'd love someone (or someones) to take this over and really polish it up.

[Ironholds]

I'm down to collaborate on this!

[njtierney]

This looks fun! I would love to get practice at writing good print methods, they are surprisingly difficult!

[mine-cetinkaya-rundel]

I subscribed to this issue to see if more discussion on it happens. @AmeliaMN and I have talked previously about this, and I'd love to see this functionality come to life as well. I'd be happy to contribute / continue working on this if there's more to do on it beyond runconf.

[haozhu233]

We have a slack channel called pipeablesummary.

[jules32]

And we're working from https://github.com/hadley/precis.

Starting off: what do we want vs. what exists – and where to go from there.

And here's our google doc of notes

[michaelquinn32]

We now have a separate repo

https://github.com/ropenscilabs/skimr.

[stefaniebutland]

Blog post about skimr: skimr for useful and tidy summary statistics