1% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand 2% Please edit documentation in R/glimpse.R 3\name{glimpse} 4\alias{glimpse} 5\title{Get a glimpse of your data} 6\usage{ 7glimpse(x, width = NULL, ...) 8} 9\arguments{ 10\item{x}{An object to glimpse at.} 11 12\item{width}{Width of output: defaults to the setting of the 13\code{width} \link[=pillar_options]{option} (if finite) 14or the width of the console.} 15 16\item{...}{Unused, for extensibility.} 17} 18\value{ 19x original x is (invisibly) returned, allowing \code{glimpse()} to be 20used within a data pipe line. 21} 22\description{ 23\code{glimpse()} is like a transposed version of \code{print()}: 24columns run down the page, and data runs across. 25This makes it possible to see every column in a data frame. 26It's a little like \code{\link[=str]{str()}} applied to a data frame 27but it tries to show you as much data as possible. 28(And it always shows the underlying data, even when applied 29to a remote data source.) 30 31See \code{\link[=format_glimpse]{format_glimpse()}} for details on the formatting. 32} 33\section{S3 methods}{ 34 35\code{glimpse} is an S3 generic with a customised method for \code{tbl}s and 36\code{data.frames}, and a default method that calls \code{\link[=str]{str()}}. 37} 38 39\examples{ 40glimpse(mtcars) 41 42\dontshow{if (rlang::is_installed("nycflights13")) (if (getRversion() >= "3.4") withAutoprint else force)(\{ # examplesIf} 43glimpse(nycflights13::flights) 44\dontshow{\}) # examplesIf} 45} 46