[R] 'less' for R?

ronggui ronggui.huang at gmail.com
Thu Mar 9 02:09:54 CET 2006


As Prof Brian Ripley has pointed out,That changes the object if you
make a change in the editor, so definitely
NOT to be recommended.

And you should use invisible(edit(dat.frame)) instead.

2006/3/9, Christos Hatzis <christos at silicoinsights.com>:
> Or
> fix(data.frame)
> to open it in the spreadsheet-like data editor.
>
> -Christos Hatzis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:26 PM
> To: f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk
> Cc: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] 'less' for R?
>
> On 3/8/2006 12:03 PM, Federico Calboli wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > is there an equivalent of the Unix command 'less' (or 'more'), so I
> > can look at what's inside a data.frame or a matrix without having it
> > printed out on console?
> >
> > I am using R on Debian Linux and Mac OS 10.4.5
>
> I think you want page().  head() and tail() are also useful, as equivalents
> to the head and tail commands.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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