An alternative that you may find interesting is the TkListView function in the TeachingDemos package. This opens a separate window and shows the list structure there with options for scrolling and expanding/collapsing sublists. You will probably need to be a little patient while the display builds for a list of that size.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of zubin > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:40 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] str() on a data frame with 600 variables > > perfect! thx > > On 4/15/2011 8:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 15/04/2011 8:19 AM, zubin wrote: > >> Hello.. > >> > >> How do I get str() to show all variables in a data frame? It seems > to be > >> "list output truncated" at about 99 variables, the data frame has > over > >> 600 but i can't seem to figure out how to show all variables, we see > >> list.len() but again can't seem to figure this out - help will be > >> appreciated. > >> > >> R> str(raw) > >> > >> 'data.frame': 1201 obs. of 626 variables: > >> > >> . > >> > >> . > >> > >> $ varXYZ : int 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... > >> > >> [list output truncated] > >> > > Use str(raw, list.len=1000). > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.