A TUI for viewing R data
Installation
You can install the development version of legs from GitHub with:
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("ryanzomorrodi/legs")Usage
legs is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for viewing your data in R. legs is capable of viewing data.frames, matrixs, lists, and atomic vectors. Just call legs::view() on your object to open the viewer in your terminal.
Navigate the terminal with the following key bindings:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
hjkl (or ← ↓ ↑ →) |
Move cursor |
HJKL (or Shift + ← ↓ ↑ →) |
Page over |
g |
Select top row |
<n>G |
Select bottom row (or <n> row) |
^ |
Select first column |
$ |
Select last column |
<n>t |
Toggle truncation (or set truncation to <n> characters) |
Enter |
View the cell highlighted |
esc |
View the parent data structure |
y |
Yank (copy) selected cell |
? |
View this help screen |
q |
Exit |
All scroll movement key bindings can also be prefixed with a number to perform it <n> times. For example, pressing 25h scrolls down 25 rows.
legs::view() also prints the last frame shown and silently returns the last item viewed. Meaning you can use it to interactive pluck deeply nested data.
