Summarising by standard evaluation with dplyr.

dplyr_se.r

library(dplyr)
library(lazyeval)

df <- data_frame(group = c(1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3))

g <- "group"

df %>%
  group_by_(g) %>%
  summarise_(
    n = "n()",
    sum = interp(~sum(col, na.rm = TRUE), col = as.name(g))
  )
# A tibble: 3 × 3
# group     n   sum
# <dbl> <int> <dbl>
# 1     1     1     1
# 2     2     2     4
# 3     3     3     9