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Possible to print more than 100 rows of a data.table?


The data.table has a nice feature that suppresses output to the head and tail of the table.

Is it possible to view / print more than 100 rows at once?

library(data.table)
## Convert the ubiquitous "iris" data to a data.table
dtIris = as.data.table(iris)
## Printing 100 rows is possible
dtIris[1:100, ]
## Printing 101 rows is truncated
dtIris[1:101, ]

I often have data.table results that are somewhat large (e.g. 200 rows) that I just want to view.


Solution

  • The print method of data.table has an argument nrows:

    args(data.table:::print.data.table)
    function (x, nrows = 100L, digits = NULL, ...) 
    

    You can use this to control how many rows get printed:

    print(dtIris, nrow=105)
    .....
    99:          5.1         2.5          3.0         1.1 versicolor
    100:          5.7         2.8          4.1         1.3 versicolor
    101:          6.3         3.3          6.0         2.5  virginica
    102:          5.8         2.7          5.1         1.9  virginica
    103:          7.1         3.0          5.9         2.1  virginica
    104:          6.3         2.9          5.6         1.8  virginica
    105:          6.5         3.0          5.8         2.2  virginica
         Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width    Species