mutate rowSums exclude one column

Question

I have a data frame like this

> df
Source: local data frame [4 x 4]

      a x y z
1 name1 1 1 1
2 name2 1 1 1
3 name3 1 1 1
4 name4 1 1 1

W

Answer 1

This should work:

#dummy data    
df <- read.table(text="a x y z

1 name1 1 1 1
2 name2 1 1 1
3 name3 1 1 1
4 name4 1 1 1",header=TRUE)

library(dplyr)

df %>% select(-a) %>% mutate(total=rowSums(.)) 

First exclude text column - a, then do the rowSums over remaining numeric columns.