[R] beginner's problem in displaying large data

Romain François francoisromain at free.fr
Wed Nov 17 11:39:34 CET 2004


You can also try :

ab <- matrix(rnorm(10000),nc=5)
edit(ab)


Hope this helps.

Spencer Graves a écrit :

>      1.  Did you try "dim(sample.data)"?  Is it actually 2200 by 15?  
> Or are you reading in just some subset of the data?  If it is 2200 by 
> 15, could you also please do "class(sample.data)"?
>      2.  I just got a full listing from the following:
>      (tst <- data.frame(array(rnorm(2200), dim=c(2200, 15))))
>
>      You might try this.  With R 2.0.0patched under Windows 2000, I 
> got rows 1:2200 flying by 3 times, each with 5 columns.
>      3.  Have you considered doing plots (including qqnorm) of numeric 
> variables and tables of character variables?  These can often reveal 
> problems I might never see in a simple scan of numbers.
>      4.  "PLEASE do read the posting guide! 
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html".  At minimum, please tell 
> us which version of R under which operating system, and specifically 
> what you did to get it into R and how you know it's 2200 by 15.
>      hope this helps.      spencer graves
>
> Terry Mu wrote:
>
>> I got a sample data (let's call it sample.data), which is about 2200 
>> by 15.
>>
>> I tried to take a look of all data
>>
>>  
>>
>>> sample.data
>>>   
>>
>>
>> It shows only a part of data that I thought was a corner. It does not
>> really affect my job, but I thought it is nice to have a look of all
>> data. I can see individual records and they are fine.
>>
>> Is this normal because of buffer size or some reasons? Can I use other
>> commands or change some settings to display all data?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Terry
>>
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>

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