R equivalent of Stata *

Question

In Stata, if I have these variables: var1, var2, var3, var4, var5, and var6, I can select all of them with the command var*. Does R have a similar functionality?

Answer 1

The select function from the "dplyr" package offers several flexible ways to select variables. For instance, using @Marius's sample data, try the following:

library(dplyr)
df %>% select(starts_with("var"))        # At the start
df %>% select(num_range("var", 1:3))     # specifying range
df %>% select(num_range("var", c(1, 3))) # gaps are allowed