For each row return the column name of the largest value

Question

I have a roster of employees, and I need to know at what department they are in most often. It is trivial to tabulate employee ID against department name, but it is trickier

Answer 1

One option from dplyr 1.0.0 could be:

DF %>%
 rowwise() %>%
 mutate(row_max = names(.)[which.max(c_across(everything()))])

     V1    V2    V3 row_max
       
1     2     7     9 V3     
2     8     3     6 V1     
3     1     5     4 V2     

Sample data:

DF <- structure(list(V1 = c(2, 8, 1), V2 = c(7, 3, 5), V3 = c(9, 6, 
4)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -3L))