The function showData() in the relimp package does something like this (and has a go at your bonus question), in a Tk widget. It's far from a polished product, but gives some idea of what can be done using the tcltk package. Usage is, for example,

data(trees)
showData(trees)

It will be very slow with very large datasets, but fine for smaller ones.

I just discovered, though, that showData() has at least one serious bug, arising from changes (quite a while ago now! I should have mended this earlier) in the tcltk package. I'll put a new version of relimp on CRAN soon, and in the meantime I have put a fixed version of showData() at
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/firth/ software/relimp/showdata.r
-- In case it's of use.


David

On Monday, Jan 12, 2004, at 20:19 Europe/London, (Ted Harding) wrote:

Hi Folks,

The spreadsheet-like layout displayed when 'data.entry' is
invoked is very useful simply for legible display of data,
quite apart from its intended use for the purpose of entering
or editing data.

If one wants to use it _simply_ as a display device, so that
one can look around inside a data-set while working on it,
then it is not a good idea to have its _editing_ capabilities
active: this is dangerous, since an inadvertent keystroke
could change the data.

So: is there a way to invoke 'data.entry' in "read-only"
mode? Or some other function with equivalent display which
can be run "read-only"?

[Bonus question: is there a way to change its cosmetics,
 e.g. background colour, font, ... ?]

With thanks,
Ted.


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