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Data Explorer: Search across all columns for keywords #3302

Open jmcphers opened 1 month ago

jmcphers commented 1 month ago

Discussed in https://github.com/posit-dev/positron-beta/discussions/203

Originally posted by **mikemahoney218** May 29, 2024 We've got a number of workflows that involve telling users to open a data frame in RStudio's `View()`er and searching for keywords in the data frame: ![image](https://github.com/posit-dev/positron-beta/assets/38229299/16b8d8e5-ac54-4b41-bd61-efe2aeb9557a) I don't see an obvious way to do this in Positron. Is there one?

Also requested by another beta user: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron-beta/discussions/203#discussioncomment-9596158

jmcphers commented 1 month ago

Probably a better example from the discussion:

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There's nothing in the existing protocol that would let us do this since filtering is currently a per-column construct, but the user is looking for something that just lets them search across all the columns at once, like RStudio has.

jthomasmock commented 1 month ago

I agree this is a nice "quick filter", but quite different from our existing implementation.

Taking some notes for the future on this.

In RStudio this is: