I'm using R under Linux. Since the help function in R can use the program less to display text, I'd like to know if it is possible for a user to do the same. It would be very helpful to be able to view large objects (matrices/dataframes etc) using less. This is preferable to redirecting output to file or to clutter the workspace with too much output. I have tried to use functions pipe and sink, but I have had no luck getting it to work. Can this be done? Cheers, /Ali
On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:15 AM, Ali Tofigh wrote:> I'm using R under Linux. Since the help function in R can use the > program less to display text, I'd like to know if it is possible for a > user to do the same. It would be very helpful to be able to view large > objects (matrices/dataframes etc) using less. This is preferable to > redirecting output to file or to clutter the workspace with too much > output. I have tried to use functions pipe and sink, but I have had no > luck getting it to work. Can this be done??capture.output> > Cheers, > /Ali >David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT
Try the View command. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Ali Tofigh <alix.tofigh at gmail.com> wrote:> I'm using R under Linux. Since the help function in R can use the > program less to display text, I'd like to know if it is possible for a > user to do the same. It would be very helpful to be able to view large > objects (matrices/dataframes etc) using less. This is preferable to > redirecting output to file or to clutter the workspace with too much > output. I have tried to use functions pipe and sink, but I have had no > luck getting it to work. Can this be done? > > Cheers, > /Ali > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >