Hi all -- I think my Python brain is missing something crucial about string operations in R, but I cannot figure this out.
I have a large data frame with several groups of similar variables. Similar variables are named according to their group, and I am now writing a function to check correlations within groups. I want to subset the data frame by partial variable name, something along the lines of this: partialName <- "XXX" subsetData <- bigData[, partialName in colnames(bigData)] Where bigData might have 10 columns named "XXX1", "XXX2" etc. Many thanks for any thoughts, Sarah ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
