get_colno_existing_colnames {valueEQ5D}

Function to return the column number for a given column name (from list of possible column names that may have used) in a data frame

Description

Function to return the column number for a given column name (from list of possible column names that may have used) in a data frame

Usage

get_colno_existing_colnames(column_names, data)

Arguments

column_names

column names in a data frame

data

a data frame

Value

the column number

Examples

get_colno_existing_colnames(c("age"), data.frame(age = rep(20, 4), 
gender = rep("male", 4)))