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summarytools (version 0.3)

view: Wrapper function around print.summarytools to facilitate generation of html files.

Description

Takes a summarytools object as argument and calls its print method using method="viewer" by default. This generates an html file in the session's temporary directory and displays this file in RStudio's Viewer pane, falling back to default browser when used outside RStudio.

Usage

view(x, method = "viewer", ...)

Arguments

x
A summarytools object created with one of freq, descr and dfSummary.
method
One of the 3 following: viewer (default), browser, pander. Note: To display x without any formatting at all, simply use as.table(x)
...
Not used for now.

Value

  • For method=="pander", nothing (NULL) is returned. With the two other methods (viewer and browser), returns the html file's absolute path.

Details

This function makes it more practical to generate html files with a single line of code, such as in view(freq(iris$Species)).

Examples

Run this code
data(iris)
  view(dfSummary(iris))
  view(descr(iris,transpose=TRUE), "browser")
  view(freq(iris$Species), "pander")

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