findVars: findVars

In TaylorAndrew/atExplore: Methods for Exploring Data

Description

findVars searching the variable names of a data.frame for matches to a provided character string, and then returns the matching variable name(s).

Usage

findVars(data, str, ignore.case = TRUE, fuzzy = TRUE)

Arguments

data	data.frame to search
str	character string to search for in variable names
ignore.case	TRUE/FALSE: Should character case be ignored when searching
fuzzy	If TRUE, a fuzzy search method will be used

Value

A vector of matching variable names.

Examples

#fakeData <- data.frame(sex = sample(c('male', 'female'), 10, replace=T), smokng = sample(c('yes', 'no'), 10, replace=T))
#findVars(data = fakeData, str = 'smoking')

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