How can you visualize data frames in a good way?

Question

Given that you have a data frame with a lot of columns and rows, how can you visualize this in a good way?

I have imported my data from excel, where I in a clear way can browse my data. However, when I import it as a data frame into R, things get more complicated. I quickly get lost in the output in my terminal window. Could I output my data frame into some form of more easily accessible form for viewing, something that looks more the way it would look in excel?

Answer 1

RStudio does a pretty good job with its built-in (read-only) data viewer. Other solutions ( have been suggested on Cross Validated: Is there a good browser/viewer to see an R dataset (.rda file).