[R] control line break behavior of R output

Greg Snow Greg.Snow at imail.org
Mon Aug 29 19:59:08 CEST 2011


If your main goal is to look at a data frame and you are ok with scrolling, then look at the View function (note capitalization) as an alternative to just printing the data frame.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Martin Batholdy
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 6:19 PM
> To: R Help
> Subject: [R] control line break behavior of R output
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Is it possible to define at which point a line-break is happening in R-
> output?
> 
> I for example would rather like to scroll horizontally in a data-frame
> with a lot of columns
> instead of having a lot of breakpoints in the data.frame (to fit the
> screen).
> 
> 
> Can you control that?
> Can you tell R to do a line-break after x symbols of output for
> example?
> 
> 
> thanks!
> 
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