Move year variable to first column in dataframe with dplyr package in R

A quick hack to create a year variable from a string variable and place it as column number one in your dataframe.

First problem with my initial dataset is that the date is a string of numbers and I want the first four characters in the string.

data$year <- substr(data$date, 0, 4)
data$year <- as.numeric(data$year)

Now I want to place it at the beginning to keep things more organised:

data = data %>% 
select(year, everything())

And we are done!

Much better.