move_to_newcol: Move to New Column

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Description

Use regex to identify values and move them to a new column, replacing original with NA

Usage

move_to_newcol(df, col1, col2, my.regex)

Arguments

my.old.col.name	Column from which value will be moved leaving behind NA
my.new.col.name	Name of new column that will contain values.
my.regex	Regular expression
df	dataframe

Details

Wrapper for str_detect

Examples

 
x <- tibble(col1 = letters[1:5])
move_to_newcol(x, col1, col2, "[a]")

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