useful (version 1.2.6)

corner: corner

Description

Display a corner section of a rectangular data set

Usage

corner(x, ...)
# S3 method for data.frame
corner(x, r = 5L, c = 5L, corner = "topleft",
  ...)
# S3 method for matrix
corner(x, r = 5L, c = 5L, corner = "topleft", ...)
# S3 method for table
corner(x, r = 5L, c = 5L, corner = "topleft", ...)
# S3 method for default
corner(x, r = 5L, ...)

Value

... The part of the data set that was requested. The size depends on r and c and the position depends on corner.

Arguments

x

The data

...

Arguments passed on to other functions

r

Number of rows to display

c

Number of columns to show

corner

Which corner to grab. Possible values are c("topleft", "bottomleft", "topright", "bottomright")

Author

Jared P. Lander

Details

Grabs a corner of a data set

Display a corner section of a rectangular data set

Displays a corner of a rectangular data set such as a data.frame, matrix or table. If showing the right side or bottom, the order of the data is preserved.

The default method reverts to simply calling head

corner of a rectangular data set such as a data.frame, matrix or table. If showing the right side or bottom, the order of the data is preserved.

See Also

head tail topleft topright bottomleft bottomright left right

Examples

data(diamonds)
head(diamonds)      # displays all columns
corner(diamonds)    # displays first 5 rows and only the first 5 columns
corner(diamonds, corner="bottomleft")       # displays the last 5 rows and the first 5 columns
corner(diamonds, corner="topright")       # displays the first 5 rows and the last 5 columns