Case-insensitive search of a list in R

Question

Can I search a character list for a string where I don\'t know how the string is cased? Or more generally, I\'m trying to reference a column in a dataframe, but I don\'t kn

Answer 1

Assuming that there are no variable names which differ only in case, you can search your all-lowercase variable name in tolower(names(myDataFrame)):

match("b", tolower(c("A","B","C")))
[1] 2

This will produce only exact matches, but that is probably desirable in this case.