[R] How to edit a dataframe/tibble in R console

[Yousri Fanous]

I recently installed R 3.6.3 on my windows laptop.

R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)

I am trying to import a stata .dta file to R

>url<-“http://www.stata-press.com/data/r10/rootstock.dta”

>library(tidyverse)

>library(haven)

>rootstock<-read_dta(url)


All works as expected.


>class(rootstock)
[1] "tbl_df"     "tbl"        "data.frame"


Now I cannot use the edit command with a tibble or a data frame


> edit(rootstock)
Error in edit.data.frame(rootstock) :
  can only handle vector and factor elements


I noticed that their is an add-on package editData for Rstudio, but I
cannot use it from the console:

>library(editData)
>editData(rootstock)
Error: RStudio not running


How can I edit a tibble/dataframe from the console?


Yousri Fanous

Software Developer

IBM Canada

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