Re: [R] Browsing through a dataframe page by page (like with shell command more)

Thank you all for your input. View is quite nice, despite the fact that you need to be in a X session and it seems(?) difficult to copy paste data out of the view. page(my_var) works great and is most similar to what I had in mind. TkListView seems interesting but quite slow for large list or

[R] Browsing through a dataframe page by page (like with shell command more)

Hello, I'm looking for an easy way to display a data.frame (or other variables) page by page, similarly to what is possible on a file using the more command in a standard UNIX shell. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Alexandre [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] Browsing through a dataframe page by page (like with shell command more)

On 2010-12-13 02:49, Alexandre CESARI wrote: Hello, I'm looking for an easy way to display a data.frame (or other variables) page by page, similarly to what is possible on a file using the more command in a standard UNIX shell. Any help would be greatly appreciated. How about View(mydata)?

Re: [R] Browsing through a dataframe page by page (like with shell command more)

For data frames the best is probably the View function (note capitol V) which opens the data frame in a spreadsheet like window that you can scroll through. For more complicated, list or list-like objects, look at TkListView in the TeachingDemos package. For more general investigation of data