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MissMoo
MissMoo

Reputation: 25

R - How do I stop a data frame printing itself to the console

I'm very new to R and am working on a text mining project. I have all the analysis working however when I convert the Term-Document Matrix back to a data frame it fills the console with the content..

The code I'm using for this is:

TDM.frame <- data.frame(inspect(Words.TDM))

The frame has 9k objects in it so I won't paste that here too but you can imagine what the console looks like when it dumps the whole content out ^^

I've tried using invisible() but that doesn't change anything. I hope someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, or offer a solution!

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1751

Answers (3)

IRTFM
IRTFM

Reputation: 263301

This is what inspect does (at least in the case where it is given a TDM):

> tm:::inspect.TermDocumentMatrix
function (x) 
{
    print(x)
    cat("\n")
    print(as.matrix(x))
}
<environment: namespace:tm>

So you want the object that is returned which is just as.matrix(tdm) and you do not want the printing side-effect. So you should just do this instead:

 TDM.frame <- data.frame(as.matrix(Words.TDM))

Upvotes: 2

nathaneastwood
nathaneastwood

Reputation: 3764

Try 

TDM.frame <- data.frame(inspect(Words.TDM))
head(TDM.frame)

Or, you can use dplyr

library(dplyr)
TDM.frame <- tbl_df(TDM.frame)

Upvotes: 0

thie1e
thie1e

Reputation: 3688

Is the inspect() within data.frame() really necessary? Can you perhaps just convert the TDM to a matrix, since it seems this is what you are trying to achieve? If necessary, you can then convert the matrix to a data frame.

as.matrix(Words.TDM)

Upvotes: 2

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