title: Does R have a wildcard expression (such as an asterisk (*))?
body: <p>I hope I am not missing something obvious but here is my question:</p>
  
  <p>Given data like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>Data1=
  Name       Number
  AndyBullxxx    12
  AlexPullxcx    14
  AndyPamxvb     56
  RickRalldfg    34
  AndyPantert    45
  SamSaltedf     45
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to be able to pull out all of the rows starting with "Andy"</p>
  
  <pre><code>subset(Data1,Name=="Andy*")
  
  AndyBullxxx  12
  AndyPamxvb   56
  AndyPantert  45
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So basically a wild card symbol that will let me subset all rows that begin with a certain character designation.</p>