get {arkhe}

Get Rows/Columns by Name

Description

Returns rows/columns selected by name in an array-like object.

Usage

get_columns(x, ...)

get_rows(x, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'data.frame'
get_columns(x, select = NULL, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'data.frame'
get_rows(x, select = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

An R object (should be a matrix or a data.frame).

...

Further arguments to be passed to select.

select

A function to be applied to the row/colum names (e.g. startsWith()). Must return a single integer or logical vector.

Value

An object of the same sort as x.

Author(s)

N. Frerebeau

See Also

Other data preparation tools: append(), assign(), compact(), count(), detect(), discard(), keep(), seek()

Examples

## Seek columns
seek_columns(iris, select = startsWith, prefix = "Sepal")

## Get columns
x <- get_columns(iris, select = startsWith, prefix = "Sepal")
head(x)