[datatable-help] Detailed verbose after common data operations?

Matthew Dowle mdowle at mdowle.plus.com
Wed Dec 8 10:28:56 CET 2010


Try options(datatable.verbose=TRUE) globally
or setting the verbose argument in [] syntax for each query.

I don't think it currently prints what you've mentioned, but
the principle is there.

If you provide short examples, and what you'd like printed
in verbose mode, it should be doable.

"mbacou" <mel at mbacou.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Just throwing a more generic question that probably doesn't belong here, 
> but
> is there any way with R to get more detailed verbose after common 
> operations
> on data.frame or data.table (such as deleting, updating, subsetting or
> joining rows) similar to what you get in either SQL, SAS or STATA -- I 
> mean
> the standard "xx rows affected" or "xx rows matched" message?
>
> I know this can be achieved with extra lines of code, but how many of us
> really check every step manually?
>
> I found myself repeatedly throwing commands (especially subsetting) that 
> do
> nothing because of small typos and not always realizing.
>
> Thanks, --Mel.
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