[R] Data.frame columns in R console

[Petr Pikal]

Hi


On 9 Feb 2007 at 10:17, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:

Date sent:      	Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:17:48 +0200
From:           	"Lauri Nikkinen" <lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi>
To:             	"Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
Copies to:      	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	Re: [R] Data.frame columns in R console

> 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.

I am not sure if it is the best idea. You shall probably use other 
means for checking your data frame.

Try ?summary, ?str or if you really want to check all values in data 
frame you can use

invisible(edit(test))

to open a spreadsheet like editor.

HTH
Petr





> 
> 
> 
> 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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Petr Pikal
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