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I am trying to filter a data frame where I need to search for a regular expression within the data frame. 

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I wanted to know if there is a way, I could find the name(s) of the column(s) where a particular regex may be available.

As an example, how do I find the name of the column where 'rsi' is present. I am referring to iris.

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  • $\begingroup$ By the way, I think there have been a lot of questions of this kind over at StackOverflow.com. $\endgroup$
    – maj
    Aug 24, 2015 at 16:58

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Would this work for you,

 names(iris)[apply(iris, 2, function(x) any(grepl("rsi", x)))]
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  • $\begingroup$ Works perfectly! I should have been able to think of that. Thanks for this simple and elegant solution. $\endgroup$
    – Drj
    Aug 24, 2015 at 20:05

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