Hi all, I often have to peek at large data. While head and tail are convenient, at times I'd like some more comprehensive. I guess I debug better in a more visual way? I was wondering if there's a way to override the default data editor. I could of course dump to a txt file, and look at it with an editor/spreadsheet, but after doing it a few times, it gets boring. Maybe it's time for me to write a function to automatize the process? I'd ask first in case there's an easier way. Thanks! -Jose -- Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition -ABC-, Lentzeallee 94, office 224, 14195 Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/
Jose Quesada wrote:> Hi all, > > I often have to peek at large data. > While head and tail are convenient, at times I'd like some more > comprehensive. > I guess I debug better in a more visual way? > I was wondering if there's a way to override the default data editor. > I could of course dump to a txt file, and look at it with an > editor/spreadsheet, but after doing it a few times, it gets boring. > Maybe it's time for me to write a function to automatize the process? > I'd ask first in case there's an easier way. > > Thanks! > -Jose >There's a tcltk-based data viewer in John Fox' Rcmdr package. Not sure it does what you want, but check it out. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
Have you tried the View function (note the uppercase V). -- 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 Jose Quesada > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:25 AM > To: r-help at r-project.org > Subject: [R] alternative to built-in data editor > > Hi all, > > I often have to peek at large data. > While head and tail are convenient, at times I'd like some more > comprehensive. > I guess I debug better in a more visual way? > I was wondering if there's a way to override the default data editor. > I could of course dump to a txt file, and look at it with an > editor/spreadsheet, but after doing it a few times, it gets boring. > Maybe it's time for me to write a function to automatize the process? > I'd ask first in case there's an easier way. > > Thanks! > -Jose > > -- > Jose Quesada, PhD. > Max Planck Institute, > Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition -ABC-, > Lentzeallee 94, office 224, 14195 Berlin > http://www.josequesada.name/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
urlwolf wrote:> > I often have to peek at large data. > While head and tail are convenient, at times I'd like some more > comprehensive. > I guess I debug better in a more visual way? > I was wondering if there's a way to override the default data editor. >I have never seen the data editor. The radical alternative I use is to do all data-peeking in an external database, e.g. Access or SQLServer Express. Writing using RODBC is so easy that write all intermediate results back to the database for inspection and re-use in a later step. Dieter -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/alternative-to-built-in-data-editor-tp23747080p23756182.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.