head, tail and fix commands don't really work well if I have large matrix/array for which I would like to be able to scroll up and dow, left and right ... Could anybody please help me? Thanks [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
For example, "fix" does have scrolling, but could we have a grid based or cell based viewer/editor just like Excel sheet or like Matlab's object editor? For some weird reason, "fix" can only show numbers a weird format... On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Michael <comtech.usa@gmail.com> wrote:> head, tail and fix commands don't really work well if I have large > matrix/array for which I would like to be able to scroll up and dow, left > and right ... > > Could anybody please help me? > > Thanks >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
... and do you really think perusing thousands of numbers by eye is any way to edit/check data?! Personal viewpoint: I would say that this is a large area of statistics and data analysis that the discipline fails to address in any systematic way ... perhaps because there is no way to address it systematically? Contrary views and corrections -- especially references! -- would be very welcome. My advice would be: graphics! -- but I can't provide anything more useful without the specifics of the problem. Some packages may provide the interactivity you seek -- check the CRAN GUI task view, R Commander, etc. -- Bert On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Michael <comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote:> head, tail and fix commands don't really work well if I have large > matrix/array for which I would like to be able to scroll up and dow, left > and right ... > > Could anybody please help me? > > Thanks > > ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm
Le lundi 05 d?cembre 2011 ? 19:01 -0600, Michael a ?crit :> head, tail and fix commands don't really work well if I have large > matrix/array for which I would like to be able to scroll up and dow, left > and right ... > > Could anybody please help me?RKWard has a good data editor, and you can open several objects at the same time in tabs. But it will not probably work if your data set is really huge (here it works very well with a few thousand rows, though). If you need to see a selection of variables in parallel, ordering the variables so that they're next to each other is probably a good solution. Cheers
Michael <comtech.usa <at> gmail.com> writes:> > head, tail and fix commands don't really work well if I have large > matrix/array for which I would like to be able to scroll up and dow, left > and right ... > > Could anybody please help me? > > Thanks > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >You might look into the RGtk2Extras package and find the dfedit. You could also embed that in some custom GUI to show variables, as you want. The package requires RGtk2, and hence the Gtk libraries to be installed. The data frame editor there can gracefully handle large data sets.