A Generic Viewing Function
The function view provides generic interface to the non-generic
function View.
In contrast to the implementation of View provided by either
basic R or RStudio, this function can be extended to
handle new kinds of objects by defining viewPrep methods for
them. Further, view can be adapted to other GUIs by specifying
the "vfunc" option or the vfunc= optional argument.
Internally, view usues the generic function viewPrep
to prepare data so it can be passed on to the (non-generic) function
View or (optionally) a different graphical user interface
function that can be used to display matrix- or data frame-like
objects.
The vfunc argument determines how the result of viewPrep
is displayed. Its default is the function View, but an
alternative is view_html which creates and displays an HTML grid.
view(x,
title=deparse(substitute(x)),
vfunc=getOption("vfunc","View"),
...)
# The internal generic, not intended to be used by the end-user.
viewPrep(x,title,...)
## S3 method for class 'data.set'
viewPrep(x,title,...)
## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
viewPrep(x,title,...)
## S3 method for class 'descriptions'
viewPrep(x,title,...)
## S3 method for class 'codeplan'
viewPrep(x,title,compact=FALSE,...)
## S3 method for class 'importer'
viewPrep(x,title,compact=TRUE,...)x |
an object, e.g. a data frame, data.set, or importer. |
title |
an optional character string; shown as the title of the display. |
vfunc |
a character string; a name of a GUI function to call
with the results of |
compact |
a logical value; should the codeplan be shown in a compact form - one line per variable - or in a more expanive form - one line per labelled value? |
... |
further arguments; |
## Not run:
example(data.set)
view(Data)
view(description(Data))
view(codeplan(Data))
# Note that this file is *not* included in the package
# and has to be obtained from GESIS in order to run the
# following
ZA7500sav <- spss.file("ZA7500_v2-0-0.sav")
view(ZA7500sav)
## End(Not run)Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.