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Feature request: Add a tidyselect function to select everything except index and index_by columns
It would be useful to have a function that selects all data columns (excluding index and any columns created by index_by). For example, I am converting some tibble based code into tsibble based code. My current code looks like this
data |>
mutate(across(-dtm, ~ log(.x / lag(.x))))
But I have to know what the index column is called. Would be nice to be able to write generic code that takes a tsibble and knows what to do with it without knowing what the index is called. It's been a while since I used xts but I seem to recall that the index is not a normal column in xts and so such generic code is natural.
The following does not work
data |>
mutate(across(everything(), ~ log(.x / lag(.x))))
because everything()
includes the index column.
What I am proposing is one or both of the following options
data |>
mutate(across(-index_column(), ~ log(.x / lag(.x))))
data |>
mutate(across(data_columns(), ~ log(.x / lag(.x))))
with perhaps more thought given to the actual names of these functions.