Another way to do pivot table in R

Question

I have data set like below:

> head(worldcup)
               Team   Position Time Shots Passes Tackles Saves
Abdoun      Algeria Midfielder   16     0      6       0     0
Abe           Japan Midfielder  351     0    101      14     0
Abidal       France   Defender  180     0     91       6     0
Abou Diaby   France Midfielder  270     1    111       5     0
Aboubakar  Cameroon    Forward   46     2     16       0     0
Abreu       Uruguay    Forward   72     0     15       0     0

Then there is a code count mean of certain variables:

wc_3 <- worldcup %>% 
  select(Time, Passes, Tackles, Saves) %>%
  summarize(Time = mean(Time),
            Passes = mean(Passes),
            Tackles = mean(Tackles),
            Saves = mean(Saves))

and the output is:

> wc_3
      Time   Passes  Tackles     Saves
1 208.8639 84.52101 4.191597 0.6672269

Then I need to perform an output like below:

      var           mean
     Time    208.8638655
   Passes     84.5210084
  Tackles      4.1915966
    Saves      0.6672269

I tried to do like this:

wc_3 <- worldcup %>% 
  select(Time, Passes, Tackles, Saves) %>%
  summarize(Time = mean(Time),
            Passes = mean(Passes),
            Tackles = mean(Tackles),
            Saves = mean(Saves)) %>%
  gather(var, mean, Time:Saves, factor_key=TRUE)

The output is same. My question: is there anyway to perform the same output with the different way?

This is my a course but my submission was rejected. I do not know why but I had ask the about this.

Please advise

Answer 1

One option will be to gather first, group by 'Var' and summarise to get the mean of 'Val'

library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
worldcup %>% 
       gather(Var, Val, Time:Saves) %>% 
       filter(Var!= "Shots") %>%
       group_by(Var) %>% 
       summarise(Mean = mean(Val))