backports (version 1.5.0)

startsWith: Backport of startsWith for R < 3.3.0

Description

See the original description in base::startsWith.

Usage

startsWith(x, prefix)

Examples

# get function from namespace instead of possibly getting
# implementation shipped with recent R versions:
bp_startsWith = getFromNamespace("startsWith", "backports")

bp_startsWith(c("aabb", "bbcc"), "bb")