The slice functions from the Tidyverse are a handy set of R functions for taking subsets of your data (like filter but for maximums, minimums, random samples, etc). In this video I demonstrate a number of ways to use slice functions including slice_max(), slice_min() and slice_sample().
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library(tidyverse)
# create some dummy data
data<-data.frame(person=rep(c("John","Sue", "Bob"),c(3,2,1)),
metric=c(10,20,30,15,25,5))
data
# subset by max metric for each person
data %>% group_by(person) %>% slice_max(metric)
# subset by min metric for each person
data %>% group_by(person) %>% slice_min(metric)
# random sample 4 rows
data %>% slice_sample(n=4)
# first 2 rows
data %>% slice_head(n=2)
# first 2 from each group
data %>% group_by(person) %>% slice_head(n=2)