[datatable-help] Override the data.frame print function

Matthew Dowle mdowle at mdowle.plus.com
Mon Nov 7 20:03:21 CET 2011


I don't quite follow, need context and example please.

Like FR#984?
https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=984&group_id=240&atid=978

In the past we tried masking data.frame itself but at the time that
didn't work. We know a bit more now, so with fresh eyes ...


On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 11:50 -0500, Chris Neff wrote:
>  Thanks Tom, this works great.  What I really want in the long term is
> a way for it to be auto transformed into a data.table but I don't see
> an easy general solution for that.
> On 4 November 2011 09:24, Tom Short <tshort.rlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Chris Neff <caneff at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'd rather have the print.data.table function override the
> >> print.data.frame one. How can I do this?
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > print.data.frame <- data.table:::print.data.table
> >
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