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Search all columns in a dataframe for a piece of text
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| colsearch <- function(data, query, ignore.case=TRUE){ | |
| n <- ncol(data) | |
| c <- character(0) | |
| for(i in 1:n){ | |
| if(TRUE %in% grepl(query, unique(data[,i]), ignore.case=ignore.case)) c <- c(c, names(data)[i]) | |
| } | |
| c | |
| } |
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