[R] Printing data frame with million rows

[peter dalgaard]

On Aug 7, 2011, at 20:27 , David Winsemius wrote:

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> On Aug 7, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Bansal, Vikas wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> I was working on number of files and at the end I got a data frame with approx. million rows.To prin this data frame in output, I used
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>> capture.output(print.data.frame(end,row.names=F), file = "summary", append = FALSE)
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>> where end is the name of my data frame and summary is the name of my output file.
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>> but when I checked the output there were only 10000 rows and at the last it was written-
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>> [ reached getOption("max.print") -- omitted 923750 rows ]]
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>> Can you please tell me what is wrong with my output code?
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> Nothing.
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>> I want to print all million rows in my output.
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> I'm trying to figure out why, after that warning message, you did not immediately pull up the help page for getOption?

Perhaps he was looking for a way to override the option rather than change it?

print(...., max=2e6)

should do the trick. (Documented on help(print.default), which perhaps _is_ a little hard to find your way to.)



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