R/col_bracket.r

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#' Subsets a data using bracket notation
#' 
#' A wrapper function for bracket notation on two-dimensional objects, with bracketing on the columns. 
#'
#' @param data_object a data object
#' @param index a character, logical, or numeric vector
#' @param ... additional arguments passed to `[`
#'
#' @returns a subset of the data
#' @export
#'
#' @examples
#' # load package
#' data(nhanes)
#' 
#' # look at the first few values of dmdborn4
#' nhanes |> col_bracket('dmdborn4') |> head()
col_bracket<-function(data_object,index,...){
  
  data_object[,index,...]
  
}