Passing a column name as a function parameter to dplyr filter function

Asked Feb 04 '16 at 06:58

Active Feb 04 '16 at 07:11

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I am trying to pass in a column name to the dplyr filter function, but I can't seem to get it to work. I always return all of the rows.

Is there a way to make this work? Ideally one where this could be run both with "carb" and carb. One with and without the quotes.

 help=function(colname){
 filter(mtcars, colname > 2)}

 results=help(carb)

edited Feb 04 '16 at 07:11

asked Feb 04 '16 at 06:58

runningbirds

Could you make your example more explicit, i.e. input data and expected output. – Feb 04 '16 at 07:02
Your function has a missing `)` – akrun Feb 04 '16 at 07:04
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27197617/filter-data-frame-by-character-column-name-in-dplyr – paljenczy Feb 04 '16 at 07:05

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