s for solving the problem. This solution draws on list operations (with <code>sapply()</code>) but avoids regular expressions. Note also that we add default values to the mandatory argument, <code>nMax</code>, so that it is easier to call from the console. However, this default setting will be overwritten both by <code>check()</code> and <code>makeDataReport()</code> if the function is used within one of these functions.</p>
<pre class="r"><code>identifyNonStartCase &lt;- function(v, nMax = 10, ...) {
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