The 'corner' function is in the spirit (but not the letter) of what you ask for. It is a generalization of 'head' and 'tail' which gives the first or last few items in each dimension of a matrix or higher dimensional array.
It is available in the public domain code on the Burns Statistics website. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Ronnie Babigumira wrote: >Many thanks to Peter Alspach, Jim Porzak and Murray Pung for the help. >Peter and Jim, head? and tail? was just what I needed to list a few >observations. Peter, thanks for pointing out str? to me. I totally >agree with you on its usefulness. > >Murray thanks for file > save workspace (and Peters save.image) >addresses the third of my concerns > >One last question related to head and tails, this works best if you >have a few variables (columns). Given more, how can I use the >information on the variable names given after str to list the first >few few observations for a set of variable. > >To make it clear. Say I load a dataset with n variables named v1 to >vn. I use str(mydata) and I get a list of variable names.. > >str(x) >v1 ...... >. ...... >. ...... >. ...... >. ...... >Vn ...... > >How do i list the first n observations of say v5 to v9 > >Many thanks > >Ronnie > >______________________________________________ >[email protected] mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
