Check the string matching functions, e.g. grepl(). -pd
> On 16 Apr 2016, at 15:18 , Dan Abner <dan.abne...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.