See ?View for your new question (and please change the subject line when
you change the subject: see the R posting guide)
You could also have used e.g. format() on the data frame before calling
fix() if all you want to do was to view it.
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Christian Gold wrote:
> Thanks. So there is no solution, other than avoiding fix() and edit()?
> What would then be the recommended way to make visible and inspect large
> data.frames (i.e. that are to big for sensibly displaying on the console)?
> Would I need to write the data to a file and open in a spreadsheet programme?
>
> Christian
>
>
>
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> fix on a data frame calls edit: see ?edit.data.frame. The help for fix
>> does say
>>
>> Editing an \R object may change it in ways other than are obvious: see
>> the comment under \code{\link{edit}}.
>>
>> The simple answer is not to use fix() or edit() on other than the data
>> frames they are documented to work on.
>>
>> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Christian Gold wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list members
>>>
>>> Here is a strange problem that I have had for a long time, without
>>> finding out how to solve it. Whenever I use fix() on a data.frame that
>>> contains Dates, these are converted to numerics. As shown by the very
>>> simple example:
>>>
>>> a <- data.frame(var1 = 1, today = Sys.Date() )
>>> a
>>> fix(a)
>>> a
>>>
>>> Why is that? And can anything be done against it?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Christian Gold
>>> www.uib.no/people/cgo022
>>>
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>
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