search_list: Searches a list of dataframes.

In EstherHerbert/Useful.functions: Some Useful Functions

Searches a list of dataframes.

Description

Takes a list of dataframes and searches their variables for either a specific variable name or for a string within the variable names.

Usage

search_list(ls, string, exact = TRUE, ignore.case = FALSE)

Arguments

ls	A list of dataframes
string	A string, either the exact variable name or something to search for.
exact	Logical. If exact = TRUE then search_list finds the exact variable, if exact = FALSE then search_list finds all variable names containing that string using stringr::str_detect().
ignore.case	Logical. Determines whether to ignore case when exact = FALSE.

Value

A data.frame

Examples

files <- list(mtcars = mtcars, iris = iris)
search_list(files, "Sepal", exact = FALSE)
search_list(files, "hp")

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