SyntaxFix

[r] Select columns based on string match - dplyr::select

Based on Piotr Migdals response I want to give an alternate solution enabling the possibility for a vector of strings:

myVectorOfStrings <- c("foo", "bar")
matchExpression <- paste(myVectorOfStrings, collapse = "|")
# [1] "foo|bar"
df %>% select(matches(matchExpression))

Making use of the regex OR operator (|)

ATTENTION: If you really have a plain vector of column names (and do not need the power of RegExpression), please see the comment below this answer (since it's the cleaner solution).

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