[R] A question about default output on the screen

[Song Baiyi]

Hello everyone,


I got a problem to change the default output on the screen and I use 
Xemacs ESS and R.

When I happen to show a data.frame with thousands of records (type a 
variable name and return), the screen just freeze or keep scrolling for 
minutes, because of the large quantity of records.

Therefore I decide to write a more clever "show" method, which will 
check the number of items to print on the screen. If there are too many 
records, it will just prompt a warning message and return. How can I do 
it? I tried it setMethod("show","ANY", 
function(object){....;standerdGenetic("show");}), but it did not work.

Can anyone give me some ideas?

Thanks in advance




Baiyi Song
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