headl: A good way to preview large lists.

In NCmisc: Miscellaneous Functions for Creating Adaptive Functions and Scripts

A good way to preview large lists.

Description

An alternative to head(list) which allows limiting of large list components in the console display

Usage

headl(x, n = 6, skip = 20, skip2 = 10, ind = "", ind2 = "  ")

Arguments

x	a list to preview
n	The number of values to display for the deepest nodes of the list
skip	number of first level elements to display before skipping the remainder
skip2	number of subsequent level elements to display before skipping the remainder
ind	indent character for first level elements
ind2	indent character for subsequent level elements

Value

prints truncated preview of a large list

Author(s)

Nicholas Cooper [e-mail]

Examples

sub1 <- list(list(1:100),list(2:101),list(101:200),list(201:300),list(301:400))
big.list <- list(sub1,sub1,sub1,sub1,sub1,sub1)
headl(sub1)
headl(big.list,skip=2)

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