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alternative to built-in data editor

4 messages · Jose Quesada, Peter Dalgaard, Greg Snow +1 more

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Hi all,

I often have to peek at large data.
While head and tail are convenient, at times I'd like some more
comprehensive.
I guess I debug better in a more visual way?
I was wondering if there's a way to override the default data editor.
I could of course dump to a txt file, and look at it with an
editor/spreadsheet, but after doing it a few times, it gets boring.
Maybe it's time for me to write a function to automatize the process?
I'd ask first in case there's an easier way.

Thanks!
-Jose
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Jose Quesada wrote:
There's a tcltk-based data viewer in John Fox' Rcmdr package. Not sure 
it does what you want, but check it out.
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Have you tried the View function (note the uppercase V).
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urlwolf wrote:
I have never seen the data editor.  The radical alternative I use is to do
all data-peeking in an external database, e.g. Access or SQLServer Express.
Writing using RODBC is so easy that write all intermediate results back to
the database for inspection and re-use in a later step. 

Dieter