Re: [R] extracting characteristics of datasets from data()

2010-10-25 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: data(list = DS$results[,'Item'], package = 'vcdExtra', envir = ne <- new.env()) cbind(do.call(rbind, eapply(ne, function(x)data.frame(class = class(x), dim = paste(dim(x), collapse = 'x', Title = DS$results[,'Title']) On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Michael Friendly wrote: > I ca

Re: [R] extracting characteristics of datasets from data()

2010-10-25 Thread Seeliger . Curt
> Michael writes: > I can use data() to find the available datasets in a package, but I'd > like to extract and display some additional > information for each dataset than what is provided by data(), e.g., > class() and dim() for datasets for which > these are available. > ... > for all datasets

[R] extracting characteristics of datasets from data()

2010-10-25 Thread Michael Friendly
I can use data() to find the available datasets in a package, but I'd like to extract and display some additional information for each dataset than what is provided by data(), e.g., class() and dim() for datasets for which these are available. I'm stuck on using using lapply properly with obje