grepr: Look for a pattern in a character vector and return the hits

In renlund/dataman: Data management

Description

This is a wrapper for grep to return not only the indexes of the hits (optional), but the hits themselves. (This is mainly a helper function for find_var but can at times be useful.)

Usage

grepr(pattern, x, index = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

pattern	pattern to look for
x	character string to inspect
index	logical; whether to also return indexes of hits (defaul FALSE)
...	arguments to be passed to grep

Author(s)

Henrik Renlund

See Also

grep, grepl

Examples

grepr(pattern="a", x=names(datasets::mtcars))

renlund/dataman documentation built on May 27, 2019, 5:51 a.m.