filter or subset list by partial object name in R

Question

I have a list with 417 data frames in it. Each data frame has a separate name in the list beginning with \"Dec 1981\" and ending with \"Aug 2016\". The objects are in chrono

Answer 1

We can use grep to match the "Jan" substring in the names of 'SST_list'

SST_list[grep("Jan", names(SST_list))]