[R] Equivalent in R of the Contains operator in SAS

[peter dalgaard]

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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