Filter the census topics in a census dataframe

This is a helper function for quickly and easily selecting or excluding topics in a NZ census data set.

select_by_topic(.data, topics, exclude = FALSE)

Arguments

.data	The data frame from which the topics should be selected/excluded from.
topics	A vector of census topics to be selected or excluded e.g. (c("number_of_rooms_for_occupied_private_dwellings", "number_of_bedrooms_for_occupied_private_dwellings")).
exclude	Whether the topics should be selected or excluded.

Value

A dataframe

Details

Just a wrapper around a str_detect("pattern_1|pattern_2") selection.