Is cut() style binning available in dplyr?

Question

Is there a way to do something like a cut() function for binning numeric values in a dplyr table? I'm working on a large postgres table and can currently either write a case statement in the sql at the outset, or output unaggregated data and apply cut(). Both have pretty obvious downsides... case statements are not particularly elegant and pulling a large number of records via collect() not at all efficient.

Answer 1

Just so there's an immediate answer for others arriving here via search engine, the n-breaks form of cut is now implemented as the ntile function in dplyr:

> data.frame(x = c(5, 1, 3, 2, 2, 3)) %>% mutate(bin = ntile(x, 2))
  x bin
1 5   2
2 1   1
3 3   2
4 2   1
5 2   1
6 3   2