Duncan et al
I tried to redefine print.data.frame the way you suggested, but I misplaced the
ellipsis by putting it at the end of the function definition instead of
immediately following the name of the data frame.
Works now.
Thanks!
> On 2018-06-05, at 12:39, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/06/2018 10:24 AM, zListserv wrote:
>> Many (most?) R functions print character strings and factor labels
>> right-justified.
>
> Could you be more specific? I see character strings left justified, e.g. x
> <- rep(c("a", "ab", "abc"), 7) prints as
>
> [1] "a" "ab" "abc" "a" "ab" "abc" "a"
> [8] "ab" "abc" "a" "ab" "abc" "a" "ab"
> [15] "abc" "a" "ab" "abc" "a" "ab" "abc"
>
> In a data frame, I do see it right justified:
>
> x
> 1 a
> 2 ab
> 3 abc
> etc.
>
> It is easy to change the printing of data frames:
>
> print.data.frame <- function(x, ..., right = FALSE) {
> base::print.data.frame(x, ..., right = right)
> }
>
> > data.frame(x)
> x
> 1 a
> 2 ab
> 3 abc
>
> Are there other examples you're seeing?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> print accepts right=FALSE to print character strings left-justified, but
>> neither head nor tail seem to do so, and even print is a little inconsistent
>> depending on whether it's done while knitting.
>> Is there a way to set left-justification globally so every routine will
>> print character strings left-justified?
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