R dplyr rowwise mean or min and other methods?

Question

How can I get with dplyr the minimum (or mean) value of each row on a data.frame? I mean the same result as

apply(mydataframe, 1, mean) 
apply(mydataframe, 1         


        

Answer 1

There seems to be talk that some dplyr functions like rowwise could be deprecated in the long term (such rumblings on display here). Instead, certain functions from the map family of functions -- such as the pmap function -- from purrr can be used to perform this sort of calculation:

library(tidyverse)

df %>% mutate(Min = pmap(df, min), Mean = rowMeans(.))

#              A          B           C        Min       Mean
# 1  -1.38507062  0.3183367 -1.10363778  -1.385071 -0.7234572
# 2   0.03832318 -1.4237989  0.44418506  -1.423799 -0.3137635
# 3  -0.76303016 -0.4050909 -0.20495061 -0.7630302 -0.4576905
# 4   0.21230614  0.9953866  1.67563243  0.2123061  0.9611084
# 5   1.42553797  0.9588178 -0.13132225 -0.1313222  0.7510112
# 6   0.74447982  0.9180879 -0.19988298  -0.199883  0.4875616
# 7   0.70022940 -0.1509696  0.05491242 -0.1509696  0.2013907
# 8  -0.22935461 -1.2230688 -0.68216549  -1.223069 -0.7115296
# 9   0.19709386 -0.8688243 -0.72770415 -0.8688243 -0.4664782
# 10  1.20715377 -1.0424854 -0.86190429  -1.042485 -0.2324120

Mean is a special case (hence the use of the base function rowMeans), since mean on data.frame objects was deprecated with R 3.0.