[R-pkg-devel] Interplay between knitr() and View()

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
<roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:

> What I liked about View() is often the table is quite big, and View() provides scroll bars and nice headers that make it easy to look over the results.

When I run View(iris) I don't get scrollbars, and the table is
truncated so that only whole cells are visible, so there's no clue
that there's other cells outside the initial view - I never see half a
cell. I'd attach a screenshot but not on this list...

 Maybe this is just View() on Linux, or View() on Ubuntu Linux, or
View() on Ubuntu Linux/Gnome. But View() is very system dependent.



> -Roy
>
>> On Apr 20, 2017, at 12:45 AM, David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1. If your package definitely needs to call View(), and you want to explain how that will look, then why not show one or more screenshots in your documentation?
>>
>> 2. Why does your package need to call View? Why can't it return the metadata as a data frame, and let the user do what he wants with it himself - using View(), head(), or any other tool?
>>
>> Cheers
>> D
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi All:
>> >
>> > My package allows the user to search for information about the data
>> > available, and the information is returned in a dataframe. I had long been
>> > looking for a nice way to display the results  (the datasets' metadata),
>> > and wasn't too happy with anything until I tried the View() command,  which
>> > does exactly what I want.
>> >
>> > The problem is I can't seem to find a way to make View() and knitr() work
>> > nice together in creating the vignette. Given the way View() works I doubt
>> > there is a way,  but any suggestions of how I can show what the user will
>> > see when the given the command in the package from within my vignette?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -Roy
>> >
>> >
>> >
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