Equivalent in R of the Contains operator in SAS
Check the string matching functions, e.g. grepl(). -pd
On 16 Apr 2016, at 15:18 , Dan Abner <dan.abner99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I want to select all variables in the data.frame with a name that
includes are certain string. Something like the following:
merge3[,names(merge3) %in% c("Email","Email.x")]
But there are too many variations on the Email variable names to list them all.
Can anyone advise?
Thanks!
Dan
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