R/list.match.R

In renkun-ken/rlist: A Toolbox for Non-Tabular Data Manipulation

#' Select members of a list that match given regex pattern
#'
#' @param .data A \code{list} or \code{vector}
#' @param pattern \code{character}. The regex pattern to match the name of the members
#' @param ... Additional parameters to pass to \code{grep}
#' @export
#' @examples
#' x <- list(p1 = list(type='A',score=list(c1=10,c2=8)),
#'        p2 = list(type='B',score=list(c1=9,c2=9)),
#'        p3 = list(type='B',score=list(c1=9,c2=7)))
#' list.match(x,'p[12]')
#' list.match(x,'3')
list.match <- function(.data, pattern, ...) {
  .data[grep(pattern, names(.data), ...)]
}