You are probably thinking of the "str" function. But also look at the "TkListView" function in the TeachingDemos package for visualizing lists of lists and complex objects.
Hope this helps, -- 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-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of bwgoudey > Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:14 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Show representation of a data structure > > > I'm currently working with some large complex data structures eg list > of > lists of data_frames containing lots more variables and lists etc. > Sometimes, I'd like to be able to bring up a simple representation of > the > structure I'm working with, minus all of the values it contains (so > simply > printing the variable doesn't work as its too hard to see structure > when > there are 1000s of values being printed). I know there is a function > in R > that allows you to do something like this but I cannot remember what it > is > and my searching has turned up nothing. Does anyone know the function > I'm > talking about or have any other useful suggestions as to what I can do? > > Thanks > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Show- > representation-of-a-data-structure-tp24581814p24581814.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
