Possible to print more than 100 rows of a data.table?

Question

The data.table has a nice feature that suppresses output to the head and tail of the table.

Is it possible to view / print more than 100 rows at once?

library(data.table) ## Convert the ubiquitous "iris" data to a data.table dtIris = as.data.table(iris) ## Printing 100 rows is possible dtIris[1:100, ] ## Printing 101 rows is truncated dtIris[1:101, ] 

I often have data.table results that are somewhat large (e.g. 200 rows) that I just want to view.

Answer 1

The print method of data.table has an argument nrows:

args(data.table:::print.data.table) function (x, nrows = 100L, digits = NULL, ...)  

You can use this to control how many rows get printed:

print(dtIris, nrow=105) ..... 99:          5.1         2.5          3.0         1.1 versicolor 100:          5.7         2.8          4.1         1.3 versicolor 101:          6.3         3.3          6.0         2.5  virginica 102:          5.8         2.7          5.1         1.9  virginica 103:          7.1         3.0          5.9         2.1  virginica 104:          6.3         2.9          5.6         1.8  virginica 105:          6.5         3.0          5.8         2.2  virginica      Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width    Species 

Answer 2

View() (as in View(iris) or View(dtIris[1:120,])) doesn't truncate data.tables, and can often be nicer than printing/spewing out a data.* to the console.