Sum Function in R – sum()

Sum function in R – sum(), is used to calculate the sum of vector elements. sum of a particular column of a dataframe. sum of a group can also calculated using sum() function in R by providing it inside the aggregate function. with sum() function we can also perform row wise sum using dplyr package and also column wise sum lets see an example of each.

  • sum of the list of vector elements with NA values
  • Sum of a particular column of the dataframe in R
  • column wise sum of the dataframe using sum() function
  • Sum of the group in R dataframe using aggregate() and dplyr package
  • Row wise sum of the dataframe in R using sum() function

 

Syntax for sum function :

sum(x, na.rm = FALSE, …)
  • x – numeric vector
  • rm- whether NA should be removed, if not, NA will be returned

 

Example of sum function in R

sum of vectors is depicted below.

# R sum function

sum(1:10)
sum(c(2,5,6,7,1,2))

output:

[1] 55

[1] 23

 

 

Example of sum function with NA:

sum() function doesn’t give desired output, If NAs are present in the vector. so it has to be handled by using na.rm=TRUE in sum() function

# sum() function in R for input vector which has NA.

x = c(1.234,2.342,-4.562,5.671,12.345,-14.567,NA)
sum(x,na.rm=TRUE)

output:

[1] 2.463

 

 

 

Example of sum() function in R dataframe: 

Lets create the data frame to demonstrate sum function – sum() in r

### create the dataframe 
my_basket = data.frame(ITEM_GROUP = c("Fruit","Fruit","Fruit","Fruit","Fruit","Vegetable","Vegetable","Vegetable","Vegetable","Dairy","Dairy","Dairy","Dairy","Dairy"), 
                       ITEM_NAME = c("Apple","Banana","Orange","Mango","Papaya","Carrot","Potato","Brinjal","Raddish","Milk","Curd","Cheese","Milk","Paneer"),
                       Price = c(100,80,80,90,65,70,60,70,25,60,40,35,50,120),
                       Tax = c(2,4,5,6,2,3,5,1,3,4,5,6,4,3))
my_basket

so the resultant dataframe will be

sum function in R 1

 

sum of a column in R data frame using sum() function :

sum() function in R 22

sum() function takes the column name as argument and calculates the sum of that particular column

# sum() function in R : sum of a column in data frame

sum(my_basket$Price)

so the resultant sum of “Price” column will be

output:

[1] 945

column wise sum using sum() function:

sum() function is applied to the required column through mapply() function, so that it  calculates the sum of required column as shown below.

 
# sum() function in R : sum of multiple column in data frame 

 mapply(sum,my_basket[,c(-1,-2)])

so the resultant sum of “Price” and “Tax” columns will be

sum function in R 2

 

Sum of the column by group using sum() function

aggregate() function along with the sum() function calculates the sum of a group. here sum of “Price” column, for “Item_Group” is calculated.

##### Sum of the column by group 
aggregate(x= my_basket$Price,
          by= list(my_basket$ITEM_GROUP),
          FUN=sum)

Item_group has three groups “Dairy”,”Fruit” & “Vegetable”. sum of price for each group is calculated as shown below

sum function in R 3

 

Sum of the column by group  and populate it by using sum() function:

group_by() function along with the sum() function calculates the sum of a group. here sum of “Price” column, for “Item_Group” is calculated and populated across as shown below

#### sum of the column by group and populate it using dplyr

library(dplyr)

my_basket %>%
  group_by(ITEM_GROUP) %>%
  mutate(sum_by_group = sum(Price))

Item_group has three groups “Dairy”,”Fruit” & “Vegetable”. sum of price for each group is calculated and populated as shown below

sum function in R 4

 

Row wise sum using sum() function along with dplyr

row wise sum in R using rowSums() and sum() 21

Row wise sum is calculated with the help rowwise() function of dplyr package  and sum() function as shown below

## row wise sum using dplyr 
library(dplyr)

my_basket %>%
  rowwise() %>%
  mutate(
    Total_price = sum(c(Price,Tax))
  )

row wise sum of “Price” and “Tax” is calculated and  populated for each row as shown below

sum function in R 5

 

For further understanding of sum() function in R using dplyr one can refer the dplyr documentation


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