NDFrame.filter -> NDFrame.select

[topper-123]

• closes Rename NDFrame.filter to .select? #26642
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This PR moves NDFrame.filter over to NDFrame.select and deprecates NDFrame.filter.

I'm not completely happy with the siganture from .filter, and got some discussion points in #26642. The current PR can be seen as a first version, to be changed, if there's agreement,

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[jreback]

we should have a discussion about these semantics in the issue, can you summarize there

[TomAugspurger]

We need to have at least one release without NDFrame.select, before we can change it to be the new name for filter, right?

[topper-123]

I've set up an issue at #26642.

[topper-123]

I'm closing this donw temporarily. As I'vr said in #26642, I'm in favor ofmaking a specialized method that wouldn't overlap too much .loc.