| str {utils} | R Documentation |
Compactly display the internal structure of an R object, a
“diagnostic” function and an alternative to summary
(and to some extent, dput). Ideally, only one line for
each “basic” structure is displayed. It is especially well suited
to compactly display the (abbreviated) contents of (possibly nested)
lists. The idea is to give reasonable output for any R
object. It calls args for (non-primitive) function objects.
str(object, ...)
## S3 method for class 'data.frame':
str(object, ...)
## Default S3 method:
str(object, max.level = NA, vec.len = 4, digits.d = 3,
nchar.max = 128, give.attr = TRUE, give.length = TRUE,
wid = getOption("width"), nest.lev = 0,
indent.str = paste(rep.int(" ", max(0, nest.lev + 1)), collapse = ".."),
comp.str="$ ", no.list = FALSE, envir = baseenv(),
...)
object |
any R object about which you want to have some information. |
max.level |
maximal level of nesting which is applied for displaying nested structures, e.g., a list containing sub lists. Default NA: Display all nesting levels. |
vec.len |
numeric (>= 0) indicating how many “first few” elements are displayed of each vector. The number is multiplied by different factors (from .5 to 3) depending on the kind of vector. Default 4. |
digits.d |
number of digits for numerical components (as for
print). |
nchar.max |
maximal number of characters to show for
character strings. Longer strings are truncated, see
longch example below. |
give.attr |
logical; if TRUE (default), show attributes
as sub structures. |
give.length |
logical; if TRUE (default), indicate
length (as [1:...]). |
wid |
the page width to be used. The default is the currently
active options("width"). |
nest.lev |
current nesting level in the recursive calls to
str. |
indent.str |
the indentation string to use. |
comp.str |
string to be used for separating list components. |
no.list |
logical; if true, no “list of ..” is nor the class is printed. |
envir |
the environment to be used for promise (see
delayedAssign) objects only. |
... |
potential further arguments (required for Method/Generic reasons). |
str does not return anything, for efficiency reasons.
The obvious side effect is output to the terminal.
Martin Maechler maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch since 1990.
ls.str for listing objects with their structure;
summary, args.
require(stats)
## The following examples show some of 'str' capabilities
str(1:12)
str(ls)
str(args) #- more useful than args(args) !
str(freeny)
str(str)
str(.Machine, digits = 20)
str( lsfit(1:9,1:9))
str( lsfit(1:9,1:9), max = 1)
op <- options(); str(op) #- save first; otherwise internal options() is used.
need.dev <- !exists(".Device") || is.null(.Device)
if(need.dev) postscript()
str(par()); if(need.dev) graphics.off()
ch <- letters[1:12]; is.na(ch) <- 3:5
str(ch) # character NA's
nchar(longch <- paste(rep(letters,100), collapse=""))
str(longch)
str(longch, nchar.max = 52)
str(quote( { A+B; list(C,D) } ))
## S4 classes :
require(stats4)
x <- 0:10; y <- c(26, 17, 13, 12, 20, 5, 9, 8, 5, 4, 8)
ll <- function(ymax=15, xh=6) -sum(dpois(y, lambda=ymax/(1+x/xh), log=TRUE))
fit <- mle(ll)
str(fit)