grepColNames: Get column names of data.frame matching a search string

In rrMisc: Little Helpers

Description

Specify a character string and find the column names in a data.frame containing this character string.

Usage

grepColNames(d.frame, part.name, sort.col = "nr", ...)

Arguments

d.frame	data.frame
part.name	Search string in column names
sort.col	specify output column to sort by
...	Arguments passed to further functions

Details

Unlike using '==' or '%in%', here search is performed using grep() in a fashion of 'like', meaning substrings are recognized.

Value

grepColNames() returns the found column names and details

Note

under continuous developement

Author(s)

Roland Rapold

References

none

See Also

grepColEntries grepColNA grepObjNames grepNotCompleteEntries grepMultipleEntries grepRowNames grepColNegNum grepColFactors

Examples

if(require("MASS"))
{
    data(crabs, package="MASS")
    head(crabs)
    print(grepColNames(crabs, "W"))
    print(grepColNames(crabs, "e"))
}

rrMisc documentation built on June 25, 2021, 3 a.m.