TIL (1) that R has a function called `dput()` that writes a text representation of an R object and (2) that a `c()` in an index will effectively flatten a mixture of indices. Hence:
`dput(names(df)[c(1:4, 7)]`
solves the problem of picking out a list of column names from a data frame and turning that into an object ready to insert into code. 🙃
#rlang #r #rstats #datascience #dataanalysis
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