[R] getting started, reading listing and saving data

[Ronnie Babigumira]

Thomas many thanks,  though str(myobject[ 5:9]) is not what I want, it
prompted me to try head(myobject [3:4]) and this gets me really close
to what I want, I get the first few observations of variables 3 and 4
in my data. What I would like to do however is to do the same thing
but with the variable names explicitly (so instead of 3:4 I use
something like varname3 and varname4)

Any ideas

Again, many thanks to all on the list who have helped (I promise I am
frantically trying to read up everything I have been given and bring
myself upto speed so I will not be consuming bandwidth with a lot of
read the manual sort of questions)



On 11/23/05, Thomas Schönhoff <tschoenhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2005/11/23, Ronnie Babigumira <r.babigumira at gmail.com>:
> > Many thanks to Peter Alspach, Jim Porzak and Murray Pung for the help.
> > Peter and Jim, head? and tail? was just what I needed to list a few
> > observations. Peter, thanks for pointing out str? to me. I totally
> > agree with you on its usefulness.
> >
> > Murray thanks for file > save workspace (and Peters save.image)
> > addresses the third of my concerns
> >
> > One last question related to head and tails, this works best if you
> > have a few variables (columns). Given more, how can I use the
> > information on the variable names given after str to list the first
> > few few observations for a set of variable.
> >
> > To make it clear. Say I load a dataset with n variables named v1 to
> > vn. I use str(mydata) and I get a list of variable names..
> >
> > str(x)
> > v1 ......
> > .  ......
> > .  ......
> > .  ......
> > .  ......
> > Vn ......
> >
> > How do i list the first n observations of say v5 to v9
>
> Not sure if this is what you are looking for: str(myobject[ 5:9])
>
> regards
>