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Select columns from an in-memory table

Source: R/get_docs.R
select_vars.Rd

Select columns from an in-memory table

Usage

select_vars(.data, vars, .strict = TRUE)

Arguments

.data

A data frame or data.table.

vars

Character vector of columns to keep.

.strict

Logical; if TRUE (default), invalid selection columns raise an error. If FALSE, they are ignored with a message.

Value

A data.table containing only the requested columns.

Examples

dt <- data.table::data.table(year = 2020:2022, text = letters[1:3])
select_vars(dt, c("year", "text"))
#>     year   text
#>    <int> <char>
#> 1:  2020      a
#> 2:  2021      b
#> 3:  2022      c