arrange Sorts rows by column values
count Counts columns unique values
config Configure display format options
csv Reads or writes a dataframe in CSV format
distinct Retains unique rows
filter Filters rows that satisfy given predicates
glimpse Shows a dataframe overview
group by and summarize Performs grouped aggregations
head Shows the first few dataframe rows in table format
joins Left, inner, outer and cross joins
json Reads or writes a dataframe in JSON format
mutate Creates or mutate columns
parquet Reads or writes a dataframe in Parquet format
relocate Moves columns positions
rename Renames columns
select Selects columns
show Shows all dataframe rows
unnest Unnest list columns

more examples can be found in the tests folder.

arrange

arrange sorts the rows of its input dataframe according to the values of the given columns:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    count(payment_type, VendorID) |
    arrange(payment_type, n) |
    show()'
shape: (8, 3)
┌──────────────┬──────────┬─────┐
│ payment_type ┆ VendorID ┆ n   │
│ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ --- │
│ str          ┆ i64      ┆ u32 │
╞══════════════╪══════════╪═════╡
│ Cash         ┆ 1        ┆ 12  │
│ Cash         ┆ 2        ┆ 41  │
│ Credit card  ┆ 1        ┆ 37  │
│ Credit card  ┆ 2        ┆ 148 │
│ Dispute      ┆ 2        ┆ 2   │
│ No charge    ┆ 1        ┆ 1   │
│ Unknown      ┆ 2        ┆ 4   │
│ Unknown      ┆ 1        ┆ 5   │
└──────────────┴──────────┴─────┘

To invert the ordering of a column use the desc function:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    count(payment_type, VendorID) |
    arrange(desc(payment_type), n) |
    show()'
shape: (8, 3)
┌──────────────┬──────────┬─────┐
│ payment_type ┆ VendorID ┆ n   │
│ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ --- │
│ str          ┆ i64      ┆ u32 │
╞══════════════╪══════════╪═════╡
│ Unknown      ┆ 2        ┆ 4   │
│ Unknown      ┆ 1        ┆ 5   │
│ No charge    ┆ 1        ┆ 1   │
│ Dispute      ┆ 2        ┆ 2   │
│ Credit card  ┆ 1        ┆ 37  │
│ Credit card  ┆ 2        ┆ 148 │
│ Cash         ┆ 1        ┆ 12  │
│ Cash         ┆ 2        ┆ 41  │
└──────────────┴──────────┴─────┘

config

config configures display options, it supports the following attributes:

max_columns: The maximum number of columns in a table.
max_column_width: The maximum number of characters used in a column value.
max_table_width: The maximum table width. Pass 0 for using the terminal width.

The following example shows only 2 columns:

$ dply -c 'config(max_columns = 2)
    parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    count(payment_type, VendorID) |
    arrange(desc(payment_type), n) |
    show()'
shape: (8, 3)
┌────────────────┬────────────────┬─────┐
│ payment_type   ┆ VendorID       ┆ ... │
│ ---            ┆ ---            ┆     │
│ str            ┆ i64            ┆     │
╞════════════════╪════════════════╪═════╡
│ Unknown        ┆ 2              ┆ ... │
│ Unknown        ┆ 1              ┆ ... │
│ No charge      ┆ 1              ┆ ... │
│ Dispute        ┆ 2              ┆ ... │
│ Credit card    ┆ 1              ┆ ... │
│ Credit card    ┆ 2              ┆ ... │
│ Cash           ┆ 1              ┆ ... │
│ Cash           ┆ 2              ┆ ... │
└────────────────┴────────────────┴─────┘

count

count counts the number of unique values in the given columns:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    count(payment_type, VendorID) |
    show()'
shape: (8, 3)
┌──────────────┬──────────┬─────┐
│ payment_type ┆ VendorID ┆ n   │
│ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ --- │
│ str          ┆ i64      ┆ u32 │
╞══════════════╪══════════╪═════╡
│ Cash         ┆ 1        ┆ 12  │
│ Cash         ┆ 2        ┆ 41  │
│ Credit card  ┆ 1        ┆ 37  │
│ Credit card  ┆ 2        ┆ 148 │
│ Dispute      ┆ 2        ┆ 2   │
│ No charge    ┆ 1        ┆ 1   │
│ Unknown      ┆ 1        ┆ 5   │
│ Unknown      ┆ 2        ┆ 4   │
└──────────────┴──────────┴─────┘

passing sort = true sorts the counters in descending order:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    count(payment_type, VendorID, sort=true) |
    show()'
shape: (8, 3)
┌──────────────┬──────────┬─────┐
│ payment_type ┆ VendorID ┆ n   │
│ ---          ┆ ---      ┆ --- │
│ str          ┆ i64      ┆ u32 │
╞══════════════╪══════════╪═════╡
│ Credit card  ┆ 2        ┆ 148 │
│ Cash         ┆ 2        ┆ 41  │
│ Credit card  ┆ 1        ┆ 37  │
│ Cash         ┆ 1        ┆ 12  │
│ Unknown      ┆ 1        ┆ 5   │
│ Unknown      ┆ 2        ┆ 4   │
│ Dispute      ┆ 2        ┆ 2   │
│ No charge    ┆ 1        ┆ 1   │
└──────────────┴──────────┴─────┘

csv

When csv is called as the first step in a pipeline it reads a csv file from disk:

$ dply -c 'csv("nyctaxi.csv") |
    select(passenger_count, trip_distance, total_amount) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 3)
┌─────────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────┐
│ passenger_count ┆ trip_distance ┆ total_amount │
│ ---             ┆ ---           ┆ ---          │
│ i64             ┆ f64           ┆ f64          │
╞═════════════════╪═══════════════╪══════════════╡
│ 1               ┆ 3.14          ┆ 22.56        │
│ 2               ┆ 1.06          ┆ 9.8          │
│ 1               ┆ 2.36          ┆ 17.76        │
│ 1               ┆ 5.2           ┆ 26.16        │
│ 3               ┆ 0.0           ┆ 19.55        │
└─────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────┘

when called after the first step it writes the active dataframe to disk:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(passenger_count, payment_type, trip_distance, total_amount) |
    csv("trips.csv", overwrite = true) |
    count(passenger_count, payment_type, sort = true) |
    csv("payments.csv")'
$ ls *.csv
nyctaxi.csv  payments.csv trips.csv

By default csv generates an error if the file already exists, to overwrite the file pass overwrite = true.

distinct

distinct keeps unique rows in the input dataframe:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    distinct(payment_type, VendorID) |
    arrange(payment_type, VendorID) |
    show()'
shape: (8, 2)
┌──────────────┬──────────┐
│ payment_type ┆ VendorID │
│ ---          ┆ ---      │
│ str          ┆ i64      │
╞══════════════╪══════════╡
│ Cash         ┆ 1        │
│ Cash         ┆ 2        │
│ Credit card  ┆ 1        │
│ Credit card  ┆ 2        │
│ Dispute      ┆ 2        │
│ No charge    ┆ 1        │
│ Unknown      ┆ 1        │
│ Unknown      ┆ 2        │
└──────────────┴──────────┘

when called without any columns it shows the distinct rows in the input dataframe.

filter

filter retains all the rows whose column values satisfy the given predicates. For each predicate the left hand side of each condition must specify a column, predicates that are comma separated are applied one after the other:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(payment_type, trip_distance, total_amount) |
    filter(payment_type == "Cash", trip_distance < 2, total_amount < 10) |
    show()'
shape: (8, 3)
┌──────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────┐
│ payment_type ┆ trip_distance ┆ total_amount │
│ ---          ┆ ---           ┆ ---          │
│ str          ┆ f64           ┆ f64          │
╞══════════════╪═══════════════╪══════════════╡
│ Cash         ┆ 1.06          ┆ 9.8          │
│ Cash         ┆ 0.0           ┆ 3.3          │
│ Cash         ┆ 1.24          ┆ 7.8          │
│ Cash         ┆ 1.18          ┆ 8.8          │
│ Cash         ┆ 1.18          ┆ 9.8          │
│ Cash         ┆ 0.9           ┆ 8.3          │
│ Cash         ┆ 0.74          ┆ 8.8          │
│ Cash         ┆ 1.2           ┆ 9.8          │
└──────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────┘

filter supports logical & and | in predicates, their priority is right associative, the following predicate will return all rows whose payment is Cash or rows whose trip_distance < 2 and total_amount < 10:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(payment_type, trip_distance, total_amount) |
    filter(payment_type == "Cash" | trip_distance < 2 & total_amount < 10) |
    glimpse()'
Rows: 68
Columns: 3
+---------------+--------+----------------------------------------------------+
| payment_type  | str    | "Cash", "Cash", "Cash", "Credit card", "Cash",...  |
| trip_distance | f64    | 1.06, 2.39, 1.52, 0.48, 2.88, 4.67, 1.6, 0.0,...   |
| total_amount  | f64    | 9.8, 22.3, 11.8, 9.13, 16.3, 21.3, 12.8, 3.3, 7... |
+---------------+--------+----------------------------------------------------+

we can use parenthesis to change the priority:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(payment_type, trip_distance, total_amount) |
    filter((payment_type == "Cash" | trip_distance < 2) & total_amount < 10) |
    glimpse()'
Rows: 23
Columns: 3
+---------------+--------+----------------------------------------------------+
| payment_type  | str    | "Cash", "Credit card", "Cash", "Dispute", "Cred... |
| trip_distance | f64    | 1.06, 0.48, 0.0, 0.43, 0.42, 0.66, 1.1, 0.49, 0.5  |
| total_amount  | f64    | 9.8, 9.13, 3.3, 7.3, 8.5, 9.36, 8.8, 8.76, 9.8     |
+---------------+--------+----------------------------------------------------+

To compare dates use the dt function, it can parse a string with a date-time YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS or a date YYYY-MM-DD:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(ends_with("time")) |
    filter(tpep_pickup_datetime < dt("2022-11-01 12:00:00")) |
    show()'
shape: (4, 2)
┌──────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│ tpep_pickup_datetime ┆ tpep_dropoff_datetime │
│ ---                  ┆ ---                   │
│ datetime[ns]         ┆ datetime[ns]          │
╞══════════════════════╪═══════════════════════╡
│ 2022-11-01 10:45:13  ┆ 2022-11-01 10:53:56   │
│ 2022-11-01 07:31:16  ┆ 2022-11-01 08:19:44   │
│ 2022-11-01 11:33:46  ┆ 2022-11-01 12:03:15   │
│ 2022-11-01 11:17:08  ┆ 2022-11-01 12:08:15   │
└──────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘

The contains function can be used on string or list columns to find rows that contain a given value. For finding string values use a regex pattern:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    filter(contains(payment_type, "(?i:no)")) |
    distinct(payment_type) |
    show()'
shape: (2, 1)
┌──────────────┐
│ payment_type │
│ ---          │
│ str          │
╞══════════════╡
│ Unknown      │
│ No charge    │
└──────────────┘

for dataframes that contain list columns where each column value is a list:

$ dply -c 'parquet("lists.parquet") | head(5)'
shape: (5, 4)
┌──────────┬─────────────┬────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ shape_id ┆ ints        ┆ floats             ┆ tags                       │
│ ---      ┆ ---         ┆ ---                ┆ ---                        │
│ u32      ┆ list[u32]   ┆ list[f64]          ┆ list[str]                  │
╞══════════╪═════════════╪════════════════════╪════════════════════════════╡
│ 1        ┆ [3, 88, 94] ┆ [2.5, 3.5, … 23.0] ┆ ["tag2", "tag5", … "tag8"] │
│ 2        ┆ [73]        ┆ [3.5, 15.0, 23.0]  ┆ ["tag9"]                   │
│ 3        ┆ null        ┆ [1.0, 2.5, … 6.0]  ┆ ["tag5"]                   │
│ 4        ┆ [43, 97]    ┆ [2.5, 2.5, … 19.0] ┆ ["tag7"]                   │
│ 5        ┆ null        ┆ [2.5, 2.5, … 23.0] ┆ ["tag2", "tag3", "tag4"]   │
└──────────┴─────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

we can get all rows that have a tag that matches ag5 or ag9:

$ dply -c 'parquet("lists.parquet") |
    filter(contains(tags, "ag5|ag9")) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 4)
┌──────────┬───────────────┬────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ shape_id ┆ ints          ┆ floats             ┆ tags                       │
│ ---      ┆ ---           ┆ ---                ┆ ---                        │
│ u32      ┆ list[u32]     ┆ list[f64]          ┆ list[str]                  │
╞══════════╪═══════════════╪════════════════════╪════════════════════════════╡
│ 1        ┆ [3, 88, 94]   ┆ [2.5, 3.5, … 23.0] ┆ ["tag2", "tag5", … "tag8"] │
│ 2        ┆ [73]          ┆ [3.5, 15.0, 23.0]  ┆ ["tag9"]                   │
│ 3        ┆ null          ┆ [1.0, 2.5, … 6.0]  ┆ ["tag5"]                   │
│ 7        ┆ [1, 22, … 87] ┆ [3.5]              ┆ ["tag5", "tag6", … "tag7"] │
│ 10       ┆ [6]           ┆ [2.5, 3.5, … 5.0]  ┆ ["tag1", "tag3", … "tag9"] │
└──────────┴───────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

or for numeric values we specify the value we are looking for:

$ dply -c 'parquet("lists.parquet") |
    filter(contains(floats, 2.5)) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 4)
┌──────────┬─────────────┬────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ shape_id ┆ ints        ┆ floats             ┆ tags                       │
│ ---      ┆ ---         ┆ ---                ┆ ---                        │
│ u32      ┆ list[u32]   ┆ list[f64]          ┆ list[str]                  │
╞══════════╪═════════════╪════════════════════╪════════════════════════════╡
│ 1        ┆ [3, 88, 94] ┆ [2.5, 3.5, … 23.0] ┆ ["tag2", "tag5", … "tag8"] │
│ 3        ┆ null        ┆ [1.0, 2.5, … 6.0]  ┆ ["tag5"]                   │
│ 4        ┆ [43, 97]    ┆ [2.5, 2.5, … 19.0] ┆ ["tag7"]                   │
│ 5        ┆ null        ┆ [2.5, 2.5, … 23.0] ┆ ["tag2", "tag3", "tag4"]   │
│ 10       ┆ [6]         ┆ [2.5, 3.5, … 5.0]  ┆ ["tag1", "tag3", … "tag9"] │
└──────────┴─────────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

Use is_null or !is_null to check for null values:

dply -c 'parquet("lists.parquet") |
    filter(is_null(ints) & contains(tags, "ag9")) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 4)
┌──────────┬───────────┬────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ shape_id ┆ ints      ┆ floats             ┆ tags                       │
│ ---      ┆ ---       ┆ ---                ┆ ---                        │
│ u32      ┆ list[u32] ┆ list[f64]          ┆ list[str]                  │
╞══════════╪═══════════╪════════════════════╪════════════════════════════╡
│ 78       ┆ null      ┆ [1.0, 15.0, 15.0]  ┆ ["tag7", "tag9"]           │
│ 88       ┆ null      ┆ [3.5]              ┆ ["tag3", "tag5", … "tag9"] │
│ 91       ┆ null      ┆ [1.0, 2.5, … 23.0] ┆ ["tag1", "tag9"]           │
│ 141      ┆ null      ┆ [15.0]             ┆ ["tag9"]                   │
│ 193      ┆ null      ┆ [6.0]              ┆ ["tag1", "tag7", … "tag9"] │
└──────────┴───────────┴────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

glimpse

glimpse displays an overview of the input dataframe by showing each column in a row with its type and a few values. This format is convenient when a dataframe has many columns and a table view doesn't fit in the terminal.

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") | glimpse()'
Rows: 250
Columns: 19
+-----------------------+--------------+---------------------------------------------+
| VendorID              | i64          | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2... |
| tpep_pickup_datetime  | datetime[ns] | 2022-11-22 19:27:01, 2022-11-27 16:43:26... |
| tpep_dropoff_datetime | datetime[ns] | 2022-11-22 19:45:53, 2022-11-27 16:50:06... |
| passenger_count       | i64          | 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1... |
| trip_distance         | f64          | 3.14, 1.06, 2.36, 5.2, 0.0, 2.39, 1.52,...  |
| rate_code             | str          | "Standard", "Standard", "Standard",...      |
| store_and_fwd_flag    | str          | "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N",...  |
| PULocationID          | i64          | 234, 48, 142, 79, 237, 137, 107, 229, 16... |
| DOLocationID          | i64          | 141, 142, 236, 75, 230, 140, 162, 161, 1... |
| payment_type          | str          | "Credit card", "Cash", "Credit card",...    |
| fare_amount           | f64          | 14.5, 6.5, 11.5, 18.0, 12.5, 19.0, 8.5,...  |
| extra                 | f64          | 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 3.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,...  |
| mta_tax               | f64          | 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5,...  |
| tip_amount            | f64          | 3.76, 0.0, 2.96, 4.36, 3.25, 0.0, 0.0, 2... |
| tolls_amount          | f64          | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,...  |
| improvement_surcharge | f64          | 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3,...  |
| total_amount          | f64          | 22.56, 9.8, 17.76, 26.16, 19.55, 22.3,...   |
| congestion_surcharge  | f64          | 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5,...  |
| airport_fee           | f64          | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,...  |
+-----------------------+--------------+---------------------------------------------+

As glimpse consumes the input dataframe it must be the last function in a pipeline.

group_by and summarize

group_by and summarize work together to compute aggregations on groups of values. group_by specifies which columns to use for the groups and summarize specifies which aggregate operations to compute.

summarize supports the following aggregate functions, list, max, min, mean, median, sd, sum, var and quantile.

A call to group_by must always be followed by a summarize.

For example to compute the mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum price paid and number of rows for each payment type:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    group_by(payment_type) |
    summarize(
        mean_price = mean(total_amount),
        std_price = sd(total_amount),
        min_price = min(total_amount),
        max_price = max(total_amount),
        n = n()
    ) |
    arrange(desc(n)) |
    show()'
shape: (5, 6)
┌──────────────┬────────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────┬─────┐
│ payment_type ┆ mean_price ┆ std_price ┆ min_price ┆ max_price ┆ n   │
│ ---          ┆ ---        ┆ ---       ┆ ---       ┆ ---       ┆ --- │
│ str          ┆ f64        ┆ f64       ┆ f64       ┆ f64       ┆ u32 │
╞══════════════╪════════════╪═══════════╪═══════════╪═══════════╪═════╡
│ Credit card  ┆ 22.378757  ┆ 16.095337 ┆ 8.5       ┆ 84.36     ┆ 185 │
│ Cash         ┆ 18.458491  ┆ 12.545236 ┆ 3.3       ┆ 63.1      ┆ 53  │
│ Unknown      ┆ 26.847778  ┆ 14.279152 ┆ 9.96      ┆ 54.47     ┆ 9   │
│ Dispute      ┆ -0.5       ┆ 11.030866 ┆ -8.3      ┆ 7.3       ┆ 2   │
│ No charge    ┆ 8.8        ┆ 0.0       ┆ 8.8       ┆ 8.8       ┆ 1   │
└──────────────┴────────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┴─────┘

To compute aggregations on all values in a dataframe call summarize without grouping:

dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    summarize(
        mean_price = mean(total_amount),
        std_price = sd(total_amount),
        var_price = var(total_amount),
        n = n()
    ) |
    show()'
shape: (1, 4)
┌────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬─────┐
│ mean_price ┆ std_price ┆ var_price  ┆ n   │
│ ---        ┆ ---       ┆ ---        ┆ --- │
│ f64        ┆ f64       ┆ f64        ┆ u32 │
╞════════════╪═══════════╪════════════╪═════╡
│ 21.4712    ┆ 15.474215 ┆ 239.451342 ┆ 250 │
└────────────┴───────────┴────────────┴─────┘

See tests for more examples.

head

head shows the first few rows from a dataframe, an optional parameter can be used to change the number of rows that are shown.

head must be the last step in a pipeline as it consumes the input dataframe.

joins

By using dataframe variables we can join dataframes with inner_join, left_join, outer_join, or cross_join.

If we join by specifying a dataframe without specifying the join columns then the join is done by using all common columns, here we rename PULocationID to make the join work:

$ dply -c 'csv("zones.csv") | zones_df

parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(LocationID = PULocationID) |
    left_join(zones_df) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 4)
┌────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────┬──────────────┐
│ LocationID ┆ Borough   ┆ Zone                  ┆ service_zone │
│ ---        ┆ ---       ┆ ---                   ┆ ---          │
│ i64        ┆ str       ┆ str                   ┆ str          │
╞════════════╪═══════════╪═══════════════════════╪══════════════╡
│ 234        ┆ Manhattan ┆ Union Sq              ┆ Yellow Zone  │
│ 48         ┆ Manhattan ┆ Clinton East          ┆ Yellow Zone  │
│ 142        ┆ Manhattan ┆ Lincoln Square East   ┆ Yellow Zone  │
│ 79         ┆ Manhattan ┆ East Village          ┆ Yellow Zone  │
│ 237        ┆ Manhattan ┆ Upper East Side South ┆ Yellow Zone  │
└────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────┴──────────────┘

To join on specific columns we can pass them to the join call:

dply -c 'csv("zones.csv") | zones_df

parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    left_join(zones_df, PULocationID == LocationID) |
    select(PULocationID, Zone) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 2)
┌──────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│ PULocationID ┆ Zone                  │
│ ---          ┆ ---                   │
│ i64          ┆ str                   │
╞══════════════╪═══════════════════════╡
│ 234          ┆ Union Sq              │
│ 48           ┆ Clinton East          │
│ 142          ┆ Lincoln Square East   │
│ 79           ┆ East Village          │
│ 237          ┆ Upper East Side South │
└──────────────┴───────────────────────┘

json

When json is called as the first step in a pipeline it reads a JSON file from disk:

$ dply -c 'json("./tests/data/github.json") |
    select(created_at, public, repo, type) |
    head()'
shape: (4, 4)
┌──────────────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────┐
│ created_at           ┆ public        ┆ repo                                             ┆ type       │
│ ---                  ┆ ---           ┆ ---                                              ┆ ---        │
│ str                  ┆ bool          ┆ struct[3]                                        ┆ str        │
╞══════════════════════╪═══════════════╪══════════════════════════════════════════════════╪════════════╡
│ 2023-07-16T11:00:00Z ┆ true          ┆ {id: 278515889, name: user2134, url:             ┆ PushEvent  │
│                      ┆               ┆ https://api.github.com/repos/some_repo}          ┆            │
│ 2023-07-16T11:00:00Z ┆ true          ┆ {id: 21090723, name: User123/tdi-studio-se, url: ┆ PushEvent  │
│                      ┆               ┆ https://api.github.com/repos/S...                ┆            │
│ 2023-07-16T11:00:01Z ┆ true          ┆ {id: 26810458, name: User5/user-name, url:       ┆ ForkEvent  │
│                      ┆               ┆ https://api.github.com/repos/Some_re...          ┆            │
│ 2023-07-16T11:00:01Z ┆ true          ┆ {id: 940421158, name: the repo name, url:        ┆ PushEvent  │
│                      ┆               ┆ https://api.github.com/repos/Some_rep...         ┆            │
└──────────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────┘

when called after the first step it writes the active dataframe as a JSON file to disk:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") | json("nyctaxi.json")'
$ head -1 nyctaxi.json| jq
{
  "DOLocationID": 141,
  "PULocationID": 234,
  "VendorID": 2,
  "airport_fee": 0,
  "congestion_surcharge": 2.5,
  "extra": 1,
  "fare_amount": 14.5,
  "improvement_surcharge": 0.3,
  "mta_tax": 0.5,
  "passenger_count": 1,
  "payment_type": "Credit card",
  "rate_code": "Standard",
  "store_and_fwd_flag": "N",
  "tip_amount": 3.76,
  "tolls_amount": 0,
  "total_amount": 22.56,
  "tpep_dropoff_datetime": "2022-11-22T19:45:53",
  "tpep_pickup_datetime": "2022-11-22T19:27:01",
  "trip_distance": 3.14
}

mutate

mutate creates new columns by applying transformations to existing columns. For example to add column for trip duration and average speed in km/h:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(ends_with("time"), trip_distance_mi = trip_distance) |
    mutate(
        travel_time_ns = tpep_dropoff_datetime - tpep_pickup_datetime,
        trip_distance_km = trip_distance_mi * 1.60934,
        avg_speed_km_h = trip_distance_km / (travel_time_ns / 3.6e12)
    ) |
    select(travel_time_ns, trip_distance_km, avg_speed_km_h) |
    arrange(desc(travel_time_ns)) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 3)
┌────────────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┐
│ travel_time_ns ┆ trip_distance_km ┆ avg_speed_km_h │
│ ---            ┆ ---              ┆ ---            │
│ duration[ns]   ┆ f64              ┆ f64            │
╞════════════════╪══════════════════╪════════════════╡
│ 1h 6m          ┆ 28.179543        ┆ 25.617767      │
│ 1h 2m 39s      ┆ 28.630159        ┆ 27.419146      │
│ 55m 48s        ┆ 26.763324        ┆ 28.777768      │
│ 53m 45s        ┆ 19.988003        ┆ 22.312189      │
│ 51m 7s         ┆ 14.966862        ┆ 17.567885      │
└────────────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┘

mutate supports also len for list columns, and mean, max, min, median, and dt for scalar columns, seetests for more examples.

parquet

When parquet is called as the first step in a pipeline it reads a parquet file from disk:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(passenger_count, trip_distance, total_amount) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 3)
┌─────────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────┐
│ passenger_count ┆ trip_distance ┆ total_amount │
│ ---             ┆ ---           ┆ ---          │
│ i64             ┆ f64           ┆ f64          │
╞═════════════════╪═══════════════╪══════════════╡
│ 1               ┆ 3.14          ┆ 22.56        │
│ 2               ┆ 1.06          ┆ 9.8          │
│ 1               ┆ 2.36          ┆ 17.76        │
│ 1               ┆ 5.2           ┆ 26.16        │
│ 3               ┆ 0.0           ┆ 19.55        │
└─────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────┘

when called after the first step it writes the active dataframe to disk:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(passenger_count, payment_type, trip_distance, total_amount) |
    parquet("trips.parquet", overwrite = true) |
    count(passenger_count, payment_type, sort = true) |
    parquet("payments.parquet")'

$ ls *.parquet
nyctaxi.parquet  payments.parquet trips.parquet

By default parquet generates an error if the file already exists, to overwrite the file pass overwrite = true.

relocate

relocate moves column in the dataframe, by default the given columns are moved before the first column:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    relocate(passenger_count, payment_type, total_amount) |
    glimpse()'
Rows: 250
Columns: 19
+-----------------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+
| passenger_count       | i64          | 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5,... |
| payment_type          | str          | "Credit card", "Cash", "Credit card", "Credit...   |
| total_amount          | f64          | 22.56, 9.8, 17.76, 26.16, 19.55, 22.3, 11.8, 11... |
| VendorID              | i64          | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2,... |
| tpep_pickup_datetime  | datetime[ns] | 2022-11-22 19:27:01, 2022-11-27 16:43:26,...       |
| tpep_dropoff_datetime | datetime[ns] | 2022-11-22 19:45:53, 2022-11-27 16:50:06,...       |
| trip_distance         | f64          | 3.14, 1.06, 2.36, 5.2, 0.0, 2.39, 1.52, 0.51,...   |
| rate_code             | str          | "Standard", "Standard", "Standard", "Standard",... |
| store_and_fwd_flag    | str          | "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N... |
| PULocationID          | i64          | 234, 48, 142, 79, 237, 137, 107, 229, 162, 48,...  |
| DOLocationID          | i64          | 141, 142, 236, 75, 230, 140, 162, 161, 186, 239... |
| fare_amount           | f64          | 14.5, 6.5, 11.5, 18.0, 12.5, 19.0, 8.5, 6.0, 12... |
| extra                 | f64          | 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 3.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.... |
| mta_tax               | f64          | 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.... |
| tip_amount            | f64          | 3.76, 0.0, 2.96, 4.36, 3.25, 0.0, 0.0, 2.0, 3.2... |
| tolls_amount          | f64          | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.... |
| improvement_surcharge | f64          | 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.... |
| congestion_surcharge  | f64          | 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.... |
| airport_fee           | f64          | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.... |
+-----------------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+

relocate also supports the options before = column and after = column to move columns before or after a specific column, see tests for examples.

rename

rename renames columns, each rename has new_name = old_name format:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    rename(
        vendor_id = VendorID,
        pu_location_id = PULocationID,
        do_location_id = DOLocationID
    ) |
    glimpse()'
Rows: 250
Columns: 19
+-----------------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+
| vendor_id             | i64          | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2,... |
| tpep_pickup_datetime  | datetime[ns] | 2022-11-22 19:27:01, 2022-11-27 16:43:26,...       |
| tpep_dropoff_datetime | datetime[ns] | 2022-11-22 19:45:53, 2022-11-27 16:50:06,...       |
| passenger_count       | i64          | 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5,... |
| trip_distance         | f64          | 3.14, 1.06, 2.36, 5.2, 0.0, 2.39, 1.52, 0.51,...   |
| rate_code             | str          | "Standard", "Standard", "Standard", "Standard",... |
| store_and_fwd_flag    | str          | "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N", "N... |
| pu_location_id        | i64          | 234, 48, 142, 79, 237, 137, 107, 229, 162, 48,...  |
| do_location_id        | i64          | 141, 142, 236, 75, 230, 140, 162, 161, 186, 239... |
| payment_type          | str          | "Credit card", "Cash", "Credit card", "Credit...   |
| fare_amount           | f64          | 14.5, 6.5, 11.5, 18.0, 12.5, 19.0, 8.5, 6.0, 12... |
| extra                 | f64          | 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 3.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.... |
| mta_tax               | f64          | 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.... |
| tip_amount            | f64          | 3.76, 0.0, 2.96, 4.36, 3.25, 0.0, 0.0, 2.0, 3.2... |
| tolls_amount          | f64          | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.... |
| improvement_surcharge | f64          | 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.... |
| total_amount          | f64          | 22.56, 9.8, 17.76, 26.16, 19.55, 22.3, 11.8, 11... |
| congestion_surcharge  | f64          | 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.5, 2.... |
| airport_fee           | f64          | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.... |
+-----------------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+

select

select keeps the columns specified in its arguments and optionally rename them. It accepts column names and starts_with, ends_with and contains predicates:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(
        vendor_id = VendorID,
        ends_with("time"),
        contains("amount")
    ) |
    glimpse()'
Rows: 250
Columns: 7
+-----------------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+
| vendor_id             | i64          | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2,... |
| tpep_pickup_datetime  | datetime[ns] | 2022-11-22 19:27:01, 2022-11-27 16:43:26,...       |
| tpep_dropoff_datetime | datetime[ns] | 2022-11-22 19:45:53, 2022-11-27 16:50:06,...       |
| fare_amount           | f64          | 14.5, 6.5, 11.5, 18.0, 12.5, 19.0, 8.5, 6.0, 12... |
| tip_amount            | f64          | 3.76, 0.0, 2.96, 4.36, 3.25, 0.0, 0.0, 2.0, 3.2... |
| tolls_amount          | f64          | 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.... |
| total_amount          | f64          | 22.56, 9.8, 17.76, 26.16, 19.55, 22.3, 11.8, 11... |
+-----------------------+--------------+----------------------------------------------------+

Any of the predicates functions can be negated with !:

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(!contains("a")) |
    head(5)'
shape: (5, 1)
┌──────────┐
│ VendorID │
│ ---      │
│ i64      │
╞══════════╡
│ 2        │
│ 2        │
│ 2        │
│ 2        │
│ 1        │
└──────────┘

show

show displays all the rows in the input dataframe in table format. show must be the last step in a pipeline as it consumes the input dataframe.

unnest

unnest expands a list column creating a row for each element in the list:

$ dply -c 'parquet("lists.parquet") |
    select(shape_id, ints) |
    unnest(ints) |
    head()'
shape: (10, 2)
┌──────────┬──────┐
│ shape_id ┆ ints │
│ ---      ┆ ---  │
│ u32      ┆ u32  │
╞══════════╪══════╡
│ 1        ┆ 3    │
│ 1        ┆ 88   │
│ 1        ┆ 94   │
│ 2        ┆ 73   │
│ 3        ┆ null │
│ 4        ┆ 43   │
│ 4        ┆ 97   │
│ 5        ┆ null │
│ 6        ┆ 65   │
│ 7        ┆ 1    │
└──────────┴──────┘

To create a list column from a group we can use the list function in summarize:

$ dply -c 'parquet("lists.parquet") |
    select(shape_id, ints) |
    unnest(ints) |
    group_by(shape_id) |
    summarize(ints = list(ints)) |
    head()'
shape: (10, 2)
┌──────────┬────────────────┐
│ shape_id ┆ ints           │
│ ---      ┆ ---            │
│ u32      ┆ list[u32]      │
╞══════════╪════════════════╡
│ 1        ┆ [3, 88, 94]    │
│ 2        ┆ [73]           │
│ 3        ┆ [null]         │
│ 4        ┆ [43, 97]       │
│ 5        ┆ [null]         │
│ 6        ┆ [65]           │
│ 7        ┆ [1, 22, … 87]  │
│ 8        ┆ [null]         │
│ 9        ┆ [36, 37, … 48] │
│ 10       ┆ [6]            │
└──────────┴────────────────┘

If we have a dataframe with columns that contain a list of structs:

$ dply -c 'parquet("structs.parquet") | head(8)'
shape: (8, 2)
┌──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ shape_id ┆ points                                                                                   │
│ ---      ┆ ---                                                                                      │
│ u32      ┆ list[struct[4]]                                                                          │
╞══════════╪══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╡
│ 1        ┆ [{"s1",0,-7.144482,-2.752852}, {"s1",1,-3.377404,-2.862458}, {"s1",2,-4.05302,6.336014}] │
│ 2        ┆ null                                                                                     │
│ 3        ┆ [{"s3",0,-8.744724,-0.039072}]                                                           │
│ 4        ┆ [{"s4",0,-0.807573,-7.81899}]                                                            │
│ 5        ┆ [{"s5",0,-2.831063,5.288568}]                                                            │
│ 6        ┆ [{"s6",0,4.039896,-3.030655}]                                                            │
│ 7        ┆ [{"s7",0,4.160488,9.694407}, {"s7",1,-7.926216,-4.505739}, {"s7",2,8.11179,8.441616}]    │
│ 8        ┆ [{"s8",0,0.737154,0.908487}, {"s8",1,-2.295539,-7.304075}, {"s8",2,-1.40542,-9.652238}]  │
└──────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

we can unnest twice to get all values as columns:

dply -c 'parquet("structs.parquet") | unnest(points, points) | head()'
shape: (10, 5)
┌──────────┬──────┬──────┬───────────┬───────────┐
│ shape_id ┆ ptag ┆ pid  ┆ x         ┆ y         │
│ ---      ┆ ---  ┆ ---  ┆ ---       ┆ ---       │
│ u32      ┆ str  ┆ i32  ┆ f32       ┆ f32       │
╞══════════╪══════╪══════╪═══════════╪═══════════╡
│ 1        ┆ s1   ┆ 0    ┆ -7.144482 ┆ -2.752852 │
│ 1        ┆ s1   ┆ 1    ┆ -3.377404 ┆ -2.862458 │
│ 1        ┆ s1   ┆ 2    ┆ -4.05302  ┆ 6.336014  │
│ 2        ┆ null ┆ null ┆ null      ┆ null      │
│ 3        ┆ s3   ┆ 0    ┆ -8.744724 ┆ -0.039072 │
│ 4        ┆ s4   ┆ 0    ┆ -0.807573 ┆ -7.81899  │
│ 5        ┆ s5   ┆ 0    ┆ -2.831063 ┆ 5.288568  │
│ 6        ┆ s6   ┆ 0    ┆ 4.039896  ┆ -3.030655 │
│ 7        ┆ s7   ┆ 0    ┆ 4.160488  ┆ 9.694407  │
│ 7        ┆ s7   ┆ 1    ┆ -7.926216 ┆ -4.505739 │
└──────────┴──────┴──────┴───────────┴───────────┘

Pipeline variables

Pipeline variables store a pipeline progress that can be used by other pipelines, they are useful for joins or as partial computations to be used in other pipelines.

Pipelines can be separated by a newline or by a semicolon, the following example has two pipelines, the first reads a CSV file with some zones mapping and saves the result to the zones_df variable, the second one uses zones_df for a join (note semicolon to separate pipelines):

$ dply -c 'csv("zones.csv") | zones_df; parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    left_join(zones_df, PULocationID == LocationID) |
    select(contains("amount"), Zone) |
    head()'
shape: (10, 5)
┌─────────────┬────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│ fare_amount ┆ tip_amount ┆ tolls_amount ┆ total_amount ┆ Zone                          │
│ ---         ┆ ---        ┆ ---          ┆ ---          ┆ ---                           │
│ f64         ┆ f64        ┆ f64          ┆ f64          ┆ str                           │
╞═════════════╪════════════╪══════════════╪══════════════╪═══════════════════════════════╡
│ 14.5        ┆ 3.76       ┆ 0.0          ┆ 22.56        ┆ Union Sq                      │
│ 6.5         ┆ 0.0        ┆ 0.0          ┆ 9.8          ┆ Clinton East                  │
│ 11.5        ┆ 2.96       ┆ 0.0          ┆ 17.76        ┆ Lincoln Square East           │
│ 18.0        ┆ 4.36       ┆ 0.0          ┆ 26.16        ┆ East Village                  │
│ 12.5        ┆ 3.25       ┆ 0.0          ┆ 19.55        ┆ Upper East Side South         │
│ 19.0        ┆ 0.0        ┆ 0.0          ┆ 22.3         ┆ Kips Bay                      │
│ 8.5         ┆ 0.0        ┆ 0.0          ┆ 11.8         ┆ Gramercy                      │
│ 6.0         ┆ 2.0        ┆ 0.0          ┆ 11.3         ┆ Sutton Place/Turtle Bay North │
│ 12.0        ┆ 3.26       ┆ 0.0          ┆ 19.56        ┆ Midtown East                  │
│ 9.0         ┆ 2.56       ┆ 0.0          ┆ 15.36        ┆ Clinton East                  │
└─────────────┴────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

alternatively we can use variables for producing different computation from a common start (use newlines as separator):

$ dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(payment_type, contains("amount")) |
    fare_amounts |
    group_by(payment_type) |
    summarize(mean_amount = mean(total_amount)) |
    head()

fare_amounts |
    group_by(payment_type) |
    summarize(mean_tips = mean(tip_amount)) |
    head()'
shape: (5, 2)
┌──────────────┬─────────────┐
│ payment_type ┆ mean_amount │
│ ---          ┆ ---         │
│ str          ┆ f64         │
╞══════════════╪═════════════╡
│ Credit card  ┆ 22.378757   │
│ Cash         ┆ 18.458491   │
│ Dispute      ┆ -0.5        │
│ Unknown      ┆ 26.847778   │
│ No charge    ┆ 8.8         │
└──────────────┴─────────────┘
shape: (5, 2)
┌──────────────┬───────────┐
│ payment_type ┆ mean_tips │
│ ---          ┆ ---       │
│ str          ┆ f64       │
╞══════════════╪═══════════╡
│ Credit card  ┆ 3.469784  │
│ Cash         ┆ 0.0       │
│ Dispute      ┆ 0.0       │
│ Unknown      ┆ 3.082222  │
│ No charge    ┆ 0.0       │
└──────────────┴───────────┘

Quoting column names

To reference columns whose name contains characters that are not alphanumeric or underscores you can quote the column using back ticks, the following example uses the travel time ns column that contains words separated by spaces:

dply -c 'parquet("nyctaxi.parquet") |
    select(ends_with("time")) |
    mutate(`travel time ns` = tpep_dropoff_datetime - tpep_pickup_datetime) |
    select(`travel time ns`) |
    arrange(desc(`travel time ns`)) |
    head(2)'
shape: (2, 1)
┌────────────────┐
│ travel time ns │
│ ---            │
│ duration[ns]   │
╞════════════════╡
│ 1h 6m          │
│ 1h 2m 39s      │
└────────────────┘

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