rselectdplyrconditional-statements

How to use both starts_with and ends_with at the same time in one select statement?

I want select all columns starting with fy and ending with giving using dplyr. I tried the following code

df %>% select(start_with('fy') & ends_with('giving')

but it didn't work.

p/s: actually I can hack it with the following chunk

df %>% select(starts_with('fy')) %>% select(ends_with('giving'))

But I still want to put all the two conditions in one place

Solution

  • You can try using matches instead with a regular expression:

     df %>% select(matches("^fy.*giving$"))

    should do the job.

    A dummy example using iris:

    iris %>% select(matches("^Pet.*gth$")) %>% colnames
[1] "Petal.Length"