[R] Wild cards for dataframes

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Use ls() with argument pattern. It accepts a regex and returns a vector 
of objects names matching the pattern.


rm(list = ls(pattern = "data\\..*$"))


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Às 10:20 de 22/10/21, Steven Yen escreveu:
> I like to be able to use a command with something similar to a "wild 
> card". Below, lines 4 works to delete all three dataframes, but line 5 
> does not work. Any elegant way to accomplish this? My list of dataframes 
> can be long and so this would be convenient.
> 
> data.1<-data.frame(x=1:3,y=4:6,z=7:9)
> data.2<-data.1
> data.3<-data.1
> rm(data.1,data.2,data.3)
> rm(data.*)
> 
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