print.data.frame {base} | R Documentation |
Printing Data Frames
Description
Print a data frame.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
print(x, ..., digits = NULL,
quote = FALSE, right = TRUE, row.names = TRUE, max = NULL)
Arguments
x |
object of class |
... |
optional arguments to |
digits |
the minimum number of significant digits to be used: see
|
quote |
logical, indicating whether or not entries should be printed with surrounding quotes. |
right |
logical, indicating whether or not strings should be right-aligned. The default is right-alignment. |
row.names |
logical (or character vector), indicating whether (or what) row names should be printed. |
max |
numeric or |
Details
This calls format
which formats the data frame
column-by-column, then converts to a character matrix and dispatches
to the print
method for matrices.
When quote = TRUE
only the entries are quoted not the row names
nor the column names.
See Also
Examples
(dd <- data.frame(x = 1:8, f = gl(2,4), ch = letters[1:8]))
# print() with defaults
print(dd, quote = TRUE, row.names = FALSE)
# suppresses row.names and quotes all entries