[R] Redirect/pipe output to less

[(Ted Harding)]

On 12-Mar-10 19:41:22, Ali Tofigh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 14:27, Ted Harding
> <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>> However, all that was a long time ago. Check 'page' in your
>> newer R!
> 
> Thanks for the tip. But I don't understand what page is supposed to
> do. For example,
> 
> page(1:3)
> 
> simply displays the text string "1:3" in less. And if I do
> 
> x <- 1:3
> page(x)
> 
> I still get a display of the text "1:3" in less. Not sure at all what
> page is good for...
> 
> /Ali

Try something like

   X <- cbind(rnorm(1000),runif(1000))
   page(X,method="print")

And see ?page

Ted.

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