Use ddply within a function and include variable of interest as an argument

Question

I am relatively new to R, and trying to use ddply & summarise from the plyr package. This post almost, but not quite, answers my question. I could use some additional ex

Answer 1

Just use as.quoted function. Example below

simple_ddply <- function(dataset_name, variable_name){
    data <- ddply(dataset_name,as.quoted(variable_name), *remaining input)**