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A reimagination of %in% for partial string matching

Source: R/gin.R
gin.Rd

%gin% is a reimagination of %in% using grepl() for partial string matching.

Usage

pattern %gin% x

Arguments

pattern

Character string to be matched.

x

R object to be matched against. The object must be a character vector or an object coercible by as.character() to a character vector.

References

%gin% was first written for @ivelasq's r-data-recipes GitHub repository.

Examples

# %in% evaluates to FALSE because it looks for full string matches
"t" %in% "tonic"
#> [1] FALSE

# %gin% evaluates to TRUE
"t" %gin% "tonic"
#> [1] TRUE

# %gin% can be used with tab()
tab("Toyota" %gin% rownames(mtcars))
#>   "Toyota" %gin% rownames(mtcars) │      Freq.     Percent        Cum. 
#> ──────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────
#>                             FALSE │         30        93.8        93.8 
#>                              TRUE │          2         6.2       100.0 
#> ──────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────
#>                             Total │         32       100.0