[R] re-direct to "more" or "less"

[Peter Dalgaard]

Søren Højsgaard <Soren.Hojsgaard at agrsci.dk> writes:

> Something like
> 
> less <- function(a){
>   fn <- paste(tempdir(),"\\dataframe.txt",sep='',collapse='')
>   write.table(a, quote=F, file=fn)
>   system(paste("less ",fn))
> }
> 
> could perhaps help you (assuming that you have less on your computer). I agree that it would be very nice to have a built-in version...


Like page(), you mean... ?

:-)

(This goes via file.show, so Windows GUI users get a separate window,
I suppose.) 

> Regards
> Søren
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> > Fra: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] På vegne af Mike Wolfgang
> > Sendt: 29. juni 2006 04:29
> > Til: R-help list
> > Emne: [R] re-direct to "more" or "less"
> > 
> > Dear list,
> > 
> > sometimes my function generates too much data and shows them 
> > on screen, i cannot view first several lines until program 
> > ends and I have to scroll my mouse up to get them. Is there 
> > any re-direction function in R to pipeline outputs to "more" 
> > or "less" type functions?
> > Thanks
> > 
> > mike
> > 
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