partitions (version 1.10-7)

summary.partition: Provides a summary of a partition

Description

Provides a summary of an object of class partition: usually the first and last few partitions (columns)

Usage

# S3 method for partition
summary(object, ...)

Value

A summary object is a list, comprising three elements:

shortened

Boolean, with TRUE meaning that the middle section of the matrix is omitted, and FALSE meaning that the entire matrix is returned because n is too big

n

Number of columns to return at the start and the end of the matrix

out

Matrix returned: just the first and last n columns (if shortened is TRUE), or the whole matrix if not

Arguments

object

Partition

...

Further arguments; see details section below

Author

Robin K. S. Hankin

Details

The ellipsis arguments are used to pass how many columns at the start and the end of the matrix are selected; this defaults to 10.

The function is designed to behave as expected: if there is an argument named “n”, then this is used. If there is no such argument, the first one is used.

Examples

summary(parts(7))

summary(parts(11),3)