Alternative to R View() in server environment with no X11

Question

I work with R in a linux server and would like to have a functionality similar to View() in RStudio where you can look at your dataset in a tabular format.

The problem is I will not have x11 enabled, this is not an option.

Is there any good alternative way?

Answer 1

You can use the package tableHTML which produces an HTML table that can be seen in the viewer and/or browser.

It is fairly easy to use, all you need to to is:

library(tableHTML)

tableHTML(mtcars, rownames = FALSE, theme = 'scientific')

This returns: