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print.data.frame {base}R Documentation

Printing Data Frames

Description

Print a data frame.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
print(x, ..., digits = NULL, quote = FALSE, right = TRUE)

Arguments

x

object of class data.frame.

...

optional arguments to print or plot methods.

digits

the minimum number of significant digits to be used: see print.default.

quote

logical, indicating whether or not entries should be printed with surrounding quotes.

right

logical, indicating whether or not strings should be right-aligned. The default is right-alignment.

Details

This calls format which formats the data frame column-by-column, then converts to a character matrix and dispatches to the print method for matrices.

When quote = TRUE only the entries are quoted not the row names nor the column names.

See Also

data.frame.


[Package base version 2.5.0 ]