Get the column names — get_col

This function is essentially a wrapper around dplyr::select() and colnames(). get_col_names(data, cols) is the the same thing as colnames(dplyr::select(data, cols)) just with slightly less typing.

Usage

get_col_names(data, cols)

Arguments

data: a data.frame or tibble
cols: <tidy-select> One or more unquoted expressions separated by commas. Variable names can be used as if they were positions in the data frame, so expressions like x:y can be used to select a range of variables.

Value

a vector of columns in data

Examples

library(adlgraphs)
# let's get all of the column names between "top" and "run"
get_col_names(test_data, c(top:run))
#> [1] "top"        "inferior"   "dominate"   "deserving"  "special"   
#> [6] "harder"     "controlled" "small"      "run"       
# can also use tidyselect syntax
get_col_names(test_data, tidyselect::starts_with("pol_part"))
#> [1] "pol_part_rally"    "pol_part_worked"   "pol_part_contact" 
#> [4] "pol_part_money"    "pol_part_social"   "pol_part_attended"
#> [7] "pol_part_none"     "pol_part_sum"