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

The searchable package was created for allowing for various types of searching within objects:

l <- list( a=1, b=2, c=3 )
sl <- searchable(l)        # make the list "searchable"
sl <- ignore.case(sl)      # turn on case insensitivity

> sl['B']
$b
[1] 2

It works with lists and vectors and does a lot more than simple case-insensitive matching.