Desc.data.frame: Describe a data.frame Or a List

Description

Describes all the columns of a data.frame, resp. all the elements of a list, according to their class.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'data.frame':
Desc(x, sep = paste(rep("-", (as.numeric(options("width")) - 2)), collapse = ""),
     main = NULL, enum = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'list':
Desc(x, sep = paste(rep("-", (as.numeric(options("width")) - 2)), collapse = ""),
     main = NULL, enum = TRUE, summary = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

the data.frame, the matrix or the list to be described

sep

character. The separator for the title.

main

a vector with the main titles for the description of the variables. If this is left blank, the title will be composed as: number - variablename (class(es)).

enum

logical, determining if the number should be included or not. Default is TRUE. The numbers may be redundant or inconsistent, if a Word report with enumerated headings is created.

summary

logical, defining if a summary of the whole list should be given initially, before describing the single objects. Default is TRUE.

...

the dots are passed to the child functions.

Value

No results are returned.

Details

See detailed information in the description of the according object interfaces.

Examples

Run this code

Desc(d.pizza[,c("temperature","count","driver","date","wine_delivered")] )

Desc(as.list(d.pizza[,c("temperature","count","driver","date","wine_delivered")]) )