R: Printing Data Frames

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, row.names = 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.
`row.names` | logical (or character vector), indicating whether (or what) row names should be printed.

### 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`.

### Examples

    (dd <- data.frame(x=1:8, f=gl(2,4), ch=I(letters[1:8])))
         # print() with defaults
    print(dd, quote = TRUE, row.names = FALSE)
         # suppresses row.names and quotes all entries

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