vs: Search for columns containing string

In funding-analytics-packages/mattfun: Helper Functions for Exploring Data Sets

Description

vs returns a vector of all column names that contain the string chars

Usage

vs(chars = "", ds, ignore_case = TRUE)

Arguments

chars	the character string to search for in the column names of ds
ds	object (i.e. data.frame) whose column names will be searched
ignore_case	if TRUE then the case of chars and the column names of ds are ignored, otherwise, it will only match if the case matches

Details

This function is meant to help you find the column name of interest when there are too many columns to visually search for the one you want

Examples

data = data.frame(apple = 1:4,
                  orange = 5:8,
                  orangutan = 2:5,
                  applause = 3:6)

vs("oran", data)

funding-analytics-packages/mattfun documentation built on Dec. 1, 2019, 12:31 a.m.