R help - Aug 2008 - viewing data in something similar to 'R Data Editor'

Hi,

I would like to view matrices I am working with in a clean, easy to read,
separate window.

A friend showed me how to do something like I want  with edit(). I can view
the matrix in the 'R Data Editor':

For a sample matrix:
> mat=matrix(1:15,ncol=3)
> mat
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    6   11
[2,]    2    7   12
[3,]    3    8   13
[4,]    4    9   14
[5,]    5   10   15

> look=function(x) invisible(edit(x))
> look(mat)
That opens the 'R Data Editor' with mat loaded.


But I am not able to do any other actions in R while this 'R Data
Editor' is
open. I want to keep this open while
I do other work.

Is there a way to view my data in something like the 'R Data Editor'
that
still allows me to do work at the same time?
I am looking for something other than  str(), head(), and tail() which just
allow me a quick peak at the object. I do not
want to edit the object in the table, but be able to watch the object change
while I run anything that would manipulate it.

Thank you for your help.

Best,
Rachel Schwartz
Graduate Student Researcher
UCSD; Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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See ?View but I don't think it 'auto updates' per your last
sentence.
Maybe there's a better option?

Rachel Schwartz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to view matrices I am working with in a clean, easy to read,
> separate window.
> 
> A friend showed me how to do something like I want  with edit(). I can view
> the matrix in the 'R Data Editor':
> 
> For a sample matrix:
> 
>> mat=matrix(1:15,ncol=3)
>> mat
>      [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,]    1    6   11
> [2,]    2    7   12
> [3,]    3    8   13
> [4,]    4    9   14
> [5,]    5   10   15
> 
> 
>> look=function(x) invisible(edit(x))
>> look(mat)
> 
> That opens the 'R Data Editor' with mat loaded.
> 
> 
> But I am not able to do any other actions in R while this 'R Data
Editor' is
> open. I want to keep this open while
> I do other work.
> 
> Is there a way to view my data in something like the 'R Data
Editor' that
> still allows me to do work at the same time?
> I am looking for something other than  str(), head(), and tail() which just
> allow me a quick peak at the object. I do not
> want to edit the object in the table, but be able to watch the object
change
> while I run anything that would manipulate it.
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Best,
> Rachel Schwartz
> Graduate Student Researcher
> UCSD; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
> 
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> 
> ______________________________________________
> 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.

Rachel,

You may want to try JGR, http://jgr.markushelbig.org/JGR.html

which has, among many nice IDE features, an object browser that will
do what you want.


HTH,
Jim Porzak
Responsys, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimporzak
useR Group SF: http://ia.meetup.com/67/



On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Rachel Schwartz <schwarachel at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to view matrices I am working with in a clean, easy to read,
> separate window.
>
> A friend showed me how to do something like I want  with edit(). I can view
> the matrix in the 'R Data Editor':
>
> For a sample matrix:
>
>> mat=matrix(1:15,ncol=3)
>> mat
>     [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,]    1    6   11
> [2,]    2    7   12
> [3,]    3    8   13
> [4,]    4    9   14
> [5,]    5   10   15
>
>
>> look=function(x) invisible(edit(x))
>> look(mat)
>
> That opens the 'R Data Editor' with mat loaded.
>
>
> But I am not able to do any other actions in R while this 'R Data
Editor' is
> open. I want to keep this open while
> I do other work.
>
> Is there a way to view my data in something like the 'R Data
Editor' that
> still allows me to do work at the same time?
> I am looking for something other than  str(), head(), and tail() which just
> allow me a quick peak at the object. I do not
> want to edit the object in the table, but be able to watch the object
change
> while I run anything that would manipulate it.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Best,
> Rachel Schwartz
> Graduate Student Researcher
> UCSD; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
>
>        [[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.
>

Try view in the svViews package.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Rachel Schwartz <schwarachel at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to view matrices I am working with in a clean, easy to read,
> separate window.
>
> A friend showed me how to do something like I want  with edit(). I can view
> the matrix in the 'R Data Editor':
>
> For a sample matrix:
>
>> mat=matrix(1:15,ncol=3)
>> mat
>     [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,]    1    6   11
> [2,]    2    7   12
> [3,]    3    8   13
> [4,]    4    9   14
> [5,]    5   10   15
>
>
>> look=function(x) invisible(edit(x))
>> look(mat)
>
> That opens the 'R Data Editor' with mat loaded.
>
>
> But I am not able to do any other actions in R while this 'R Data
Editor' is
> open. I want to keep this open while
> I do other work.
>
> Is there a way to view my data in something like the 'R Data
Editor' that
> still allows me to do work at the same time?
> I am looking for something other than  str(), head(), and tail() which just
> allow me a quick peak at the object. I do not
> want to edit the object in the table, but be able to watch the object
change
> while I run anything that would manipulate it.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Best,
> Rachel Schwartz
> Graduate Student Researcher
> UCSD; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
>
>        [[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.
>

On Windows, this could be done with rcom and Excel.
rcom can use Excel as a server and put matrices into Excel ranges.
The code you run in R could have a statement resending matrices so the  
current
version is displayed.

I could set up more conveniently what yo want if RGui had a way
of automatically running a function each time code is run from the  
command line.
So here is a question to the masters:
Can I have code automatically run each time some code
is run from the command line?




On Aug 1, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Rachel Schwartz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to view matrices I am working with in a clean, easy to  
> read,
> separate window.
>
> A friend showed me how to do something like I want  with edit(). I  
> can view
> the matrix in the 'R Data Editor':
>
> For a sample matrix:
>
>> mat=matrix(1:15,ncol=3)
>> mat
>     [,1] [,2] [,3]
> [1,]    1    6   11
> [2,]    2    7   12
> [3,]    3    8   13
> [4,]    4    9   14
> [5,]    5   10   15
>
>
>> look=function(x) invisible(edit(x))
>> look(mat)
>
> That opens the 'R Data Editor' with mat loaded.
>
>
> But I am not able to do any other actions in R while this 'R Data  
> Editor' is
> open. I want to keep this open while
> I do other work.
>
> Is there a way to view my data in something like the 'R Data
Editor'
> that
> still allows me to do work at the same time?
> I am looking for something other than  str(), head(), and tail()  
> which just
> allow me a quick peak at the object. I do not
> want to edit the object in the table, but be able to watch the  
> object change
> while I run anything that would manipulate it.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Best,
> Rachel Schwartz
> Graduate Student Researcher
> UCSD; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
>
> 	[[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.
>

With the R prompt still active, data may be cleanly viewed (not 
edited) in a separate window by a simplification of function xless in 
Hmisc by Frank Harrell:

look. <- function (x, ...,
      title = substring(deparse(substitute(x)), 1, 20))
     {
      page(x, method = "print", title = title,options=(width=150))
         invisible()
     }

Names alone can be viewed separately as well:

names.
function (x, ...,
      title = c(substring(deparse(substitute(x)), 1, 20)))
     {       title=paste(title," ...NAMES")
      page(names(x), method = "print", title =
title,options=(width=150))
         invisible()
     }

Both functions work in Windows XP and Mac OS X Leopard under R 2.7.1 
and earlier.

-- D L McArthur, UCLA Department of Neurosurgery

 >
 > On Aug 1, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Rachel Schwartz wrote:
 >
 >> Hi,
 >>
 >> I would like to view matrices I am working with in a clean, easy to
read,
 >> separate window.
 >>
 >> A friend showed me how to do something like I want  with edit(). I can
 >> view
 >> the matrix in the 'R Data Editor':
 >>
 >> For a sample matrix:
 >>
 >>> mat=matrix(1:15,ncol=3)
 >>> mat
 >>     [,1] [,2] [,3]
 >> [1,]    1    6   11
 >> [2,]    2    7   12
 >> [3,]    3    8   13
 >> [4,]    4    9   14
 >> [5,]    5   10   15
 >>
 >>
 >>> look=function(x) invisible(edit(x))
 >>> look(mat)
 >>
 >> That opens the 'R Data Editor' with mat loaded.
 >>
 >>
 >> But I am not able to do any other actions in R while this 'R Data
 >> Editor' is
 >> open. I want to keep this open while
 >> I do other work.
 >>
 >> Is there a way to view my data in something like the 'R Data
Editor' that
 >> still allows me to do work at the same time?
 >> I am looking for something other than  str(), head(), and tail() which
 >> just
 >> allow me a quick peak at the object. I do not
 >> want to edit the object in the table, but be able to watch the object
 >> change
 >> while I run anything that would manipulate it.
 >>
 >> Thank you for your help.
 >>
 >> Best,
 >> Rachel Schwartz
 >> Graduate Student Researcher
 >> UCSD; Scripps Institution of Oceanography