Get a glimpse of your data

glimpse() is like a transposed version of print(): columns run down the page, and data runs across. This makes it possible to see every column in a data frame. It's a little like str() applied to a data frame but it tries to show you as much data as possible. (And it always shows the underlying data, even when applied to a remote data source.)

See format_glimpse() for details on the formatting.

Usage

glimpse(x, width = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

An object to glimpse at.

width

Width of output: defaults to the setting of the width option (if finite) or the width of the console.

...

Unused, for extensibility.

Value

x original x is (invisibly) returned, allowing glimpse() to be used within a data pipe line.

S3 methods

glimpse is an S3 generic with a customised method for tbls and data.frames, and a default method that calls str().

Examples

glimpse(mtcars)
#> Rows: 32
#> Columns: 11
#> $ mpg  <dbl> 21.0, 21.0, 22.8, 21.4, 18.7, 18.1, 14.3, 24.4, 22.8, 19.2,…
#> $ cyl  <dbl> 6, 6, 4, 6, 8, 6, 8, 4, 4, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 4, 4, 4,…
#> $ disp <dbl> 160.0, 160.0, 108.0, 258.0, 360.0, 225.0, 360.0, 146.7, 140…
#> $ hp   <dbl> 110, 110, 93, 110, 175, 105, 245, 62, 95, 123, 123, 180, 18…
#> $ drat <dbl> 3.90, 3.90, 3.85, 3.08, 3.15, 2.76, 3.21, 3.69, 3.92, 3.92,…
#> $ wt   <dbl> 2.620, 2.875, 2.320, 3.215, 3.440, 3.460, 3.570, 3.190, 3.1…
#> $ qsec <dbl> 16.46, 17.02, 18.61, 19.44, 17.02, 20.22, 15.84, 20.00, 22.…
#> $ vs   <dbl> 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1,…
#> $ am   <dbl> 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1,…
#> $ gear <dbl> 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4,…
#> $ carb <dbl> 4, 4, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 2, 1,…

glimpse(nycflights13::flights)
#> Rows: 336,776
#> Columns: 19
#> $ year           <int> 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2…
#> $ month          <int> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1…
#> $ day            <int> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1…
#> $ dep_time       <int> 517, 533, 542, 544, 554, 554, 555, 557, 557, 558,…
#> $ sched_dep_time <int> 515, 529, 540, 545, 600, 558, 600, 600, 600, 600,…
#> $ dep_delay      <dbl> 2, 4, 2, -1, -6, -4, -5, -3, -3, -2, -2, -2, -2, …
#> $ arr_time       <int> 830, 850, 923, 1004, 812, 740, 913, 709, 838, 753…
#> $ sched_arr_time <int> 819, 830, 850, 1022, 837, 728, 854, 723, 846, 745…
#> $ arr_delay      <dbl> 11, 20, 33, -18, -25, 12, 19, -14, -8, 8, -2, -3,…
#> $ carrier        <chr> "UA", "UA", "AA", "B6", "DL", "UA", "B6", "EV", "…
#> $ flight         <int> 1545, 1714, 1141, 725, 461, 1696, 507, 5708, 79, …
#> $ tailnum        <chr> "N14228", "N24211", "N619AA", "N804JB", "N668DN",…
#> $ origin         <chr> "EWR", "LGA", "JFK", "JFK", "LGA", "EWR", "EWR", …
#> $ dest           <chr> "IAH", "IAH", "MIA", "BQN", "ATL", "ORD", "FLL", …
#> $ air_time       <dbl> 227, 227, 160, 183, 116, 150, 158, 53, 140, 138, …
#> $ distance       <dbl> 1400, 1416, 1089, 1576, 762, 719, 1065, 229, 944,…
#> $ hour           <dbl> 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 5, 6…
#> $ minute         <dbl> 15, 29, 40, 45, 0, 58, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,…
#> $ time_hour      <dttm> 2013-01-01 05:00:00, 2013-01-01 05:00:00, 2013-0…