bracket: Subsets a data using bracket notation

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Subsets a data using bracket notation

Description

A wrapper function for bracket notation. The function only allows one index; for two-dimensional objects, the index is used on the columns.

Usage

bracket(data_object, index)

Arguments

data_object	a data object
index	a character, logical, or numeric vector

Value

a subset of the data

Examples

# load package
data(nhanes)

# look at the first few values of dmdborn4
nhanes |> bracket('dmdborn4') |> head()

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