[R-pkg-devel] Interplay between knitr() and View()
I think that exactly what View() shows will depend on your operating system. On my Linux box, I get a very plain spreadsheet with everything in fixed-width font, thin black boxes, and a highlighted cursor box. Numbers are left-justified. There's no scroll bars. I don't know if it looks the same in Mac or Windows, or if there are slight differences because the widget sets are different. Would it matter to your vignette if it was? What are you using to make your vignette? knitr? If its flexible enough you could just style a table to look very much like what I see when I run View, and tell the reader this is an approximation. I don't know if markdown source is flexible enough to control the visual appearance of a table, but you could do this in LaTeX with knitr. You *could* possibly do a screengrab of a live View window, but if you have to run your vignette on a headless server that means running a display server screen to do the grab from. I'd go with styling a good-looking fake table. Barry On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal
<roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:
Hi All: My package allows the user to search for information about the data available, and the information is returned in a dataframe. I had long been looking for a nice way to display the results (the datasets' metadata), and wasn't too happy with anything until I tried the View() command, which does exactly what I want. The problem is I can't seem to find a way to make View() and knitr() work nice together in creating the vignette. Given the way View() works I doubt there is a way, but any suggestions of how I can show what the user will see when the given the command in the package from within my vignette? Thanks, -Roy ********************** "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA." ********************** Roy Mendelssohn Supervisory Operations Research Analyst NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division Southwest Fisheries Science Center ***Note new street address*** 110 McAllister Way Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Phone: (831)-420-3666 Fax: (831) 420-3980 e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr.
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