function to determine which tables contain a certain variable?

[TSchiefer]

Something like:

names(<dm>)[map_lgl(dm_get_tables(<dm>), ~ any(grepl("<colname>", colnames(.))))]

Might make sense if you have a dm with a lot of tables.

Not sure if necessary.

[TSchiefer]

maybe #329 would mostly solve this already

[krlmlr]

A lot of that will be solved by dm_meta() ?

[TSchiefer]

Oh alright, wasn't aware that dm_meta() is supposed to be exported. If that's the case, we can close this discussion as well as #329.

[krlmlr]

Yeah, we should offer a way to extract a dm_meta() compatible data structure from a dm object. Let's make this the scope of #329.

Not sure how to close discussions. We can upvote contributions perhaps.