On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Francis Smart <smart...@msu.edu> wrote: > I was wondering, does R allow you to open a data editor, look at all > data, variable names, variable labels, and sort by multiple variables? > Would you want to use R if you have to clean a complex data set in R?
Hi, Francis. If you are looking for a GUI to examine your data, like Excel, then not really. However, R is exactly the place to go for "cleaning" complex data. See, for example, the functions summary(), head(), colnames(), sort(), and order(). > If R does not have an advanced data editor is there an open source > program that would handle these tasks well? R IS an advanced data editor. However, the interace is not point-and-click. Sean _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
