get.date.columns: GET DATE COLUMNS

In TPeschel/hlpr4life: HELPER FOR LIFE

Description

searches for some date like column names. one has the opportunity to give a search string for a certain pattern.

Usage

get.date.columns(data, pattern = "edat|date|datum", perl = T)

Arguments

data	dataframe which has some date columns
pattern	search pattern for finding column names via grep
perl	logical: Use perl regex. Default is T.

Value

names of date columns

Examples

(d<-data.frame(DATE="2017-10-05",EDAT="2017-10-04",dat="2017-10-03",DATA="2017-10-02"))
get.date.columns(d)
(d<-data.frame(DATE="2017-10-05",EDAT="2017-10-04",MUTAD="2017-10-03"))
get.date.columns(d,"dat|muta")

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