[R] Data.frame columns in R console

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:

> Thank you for your answer. When I set options(width=250) I still get the
> same result when I print the data.frame on my Rgui console (R 2.4.1, Windows
> XP). Colums become underneath each other. I also get an error (?) message [
> reached getOption("max.print") -- omitted 3462 rows ]]. For example if I
> have a data.frame with 4000 rows and 200 columns I would like to be able to
> use scroll bars in Rconsole to investigate the whole data.frame.

200 columns will take far more than 250 characters.  The help says

      'width': controls the number of characters on a line. You may want
           to change this if you re-size the window that R is running
           in.  Valid values are 10...10000 with default normally 80.

I would use the spreadsheet view of edit(mydf) in preference.


> btw, R is very useful system, my sincere thanks goes to R developers!
>
>
>
> -Lauri
>
>
> 2007/2/8, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>>
>> ?options, look for 'width'.
>>
>> I don't know what OS this in: the Windows Rgui has an option to set the
>> width to the width of the console, but you can override it.
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi R-users,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A newbie question: assume that I have for example 30 columns in my
>>> data.frame named DF. When I print DF in R console I get columns that
>> don't
>>> fit on the same row underneath each other. So how do I change the R
>> console
>>> preferences so that the console does not wrap my data.frame columns? I
>> want
>>> the columns to be printed next to each other, as in a normal table.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Lauri
>>>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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