find.dataset: find a column in a dataframe

In biodiversity-aq/OmicsMetaData: OmicsMetaData: an R-package for interoperable and re-usable biodiversity 'omics (meta)data

Description

find a column in a dataframe where it is a priori unkown wether the column is present or not.

Usage

find.dataset(dataset, TermsList = c())

Arguments

dataset	data.frame. A dataframe where to find a column based on the columnames
TermsList	a character vector with the columnnames to look for. They will be handled in the order given, and the search will stop at the first match

Details

An internal function to find information in incomming data of which the format and content is unknown

Value

a character vactor with the content of the matching column (or the first match), or an empty vector

Author(s)

Maxime Sweetlove

Examples

find.dataset(dataset=data.frame(var1=1:3, var2=1:3), "var2")

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