ecause there
are fewer functions to remember) and easier for us to implement new
verbs (since we only need to implement one function, not four).</p></li>
<li><p><code>across()</code> unifies <code>_if</code> and
<code>_at</code> semantics so that you can select by position, name, and
type, and you can now create compound selections that were previously
impossible. For example, you can now transform all numeric columns whose
name begins with “x”:
<code>across(where(is.numeric) &amp; starts_with(&quot;x&q