28.29 Truncating Too Many Lines

REVIEW Another issue we sometimes want to deal with is limiting the number of lines of output displayed from knitr (Xie 2024). We can add a hook to knitr (Xie 2024) so that whenever we have reached a particular line count for the output of any command, we replace all the remaining lines with `...''. The hook again extends theoutputfunction. Notice we take a copy of the currentoutput` hook and then run that after our own processing.

opts_chunk$set(out.lines=4)
hook_output <- knit_hooks$get("output")
knit_hooks$set(output=function(x, options) 
{
  if (options$results != "asis")
  {
    # Split string into separate lines.
    x <- unlist(stringr::str_split(x, "\n"))
    # Trim to the number of lines specified.
    if (!is.null(n <- options$out.lines)) 
    {
      if (length(x) > n) 
      {
        # Truncate the output.
        x <- c(head(x, n), "....\n")
      }
    }
    # Paste lines back together.
    x <- paste(x, collapse="\n")
  }
  hook_output(x, options)
})

We can then illustrate it:

weather[2:8]

## # A tibble: 366 × 7
##    Location MinTemp MaxTemp Rainfall Evaporation Sunshine WindGustDir
##    <chr>      <dbl>   <dbl>    <dbl>       <dbl>    <dbl> <ord>      
##  1 Canberra     5      24.3      0           3.4      6.3 NW         
##  2 Canberra    14      26.9      3.6         4.4      9.7 ENE        
##  3 Canberra    13.7    23.4      3.6         5.8      3.3 NW         
##  4 Canberra    13.3    15.5     39.8         7.2      9.1 NW         
##  5 Canberra     7.6    16.1      2.8         5.6     10.6 SSE        
##  6 Canberra     6.2    16.9      0           5.8      8.2 SE         
##  7 Canberra     6.1    18.2      0.2         4.2      8.4 SE         
##  8 Canberra     8.3    17        0           5.6      4.6 E          
##  9 Canberra     8.8    19.5      0           4        4.1 S          
## 10 Canberra     8.4    22.8     16.2         5.4      7.7 E          
## # ℹ 356 more rows

Now we set out.lines=2 to only include the first two lines.

weather[2:8]

## # A tibble: 366 × 7
##    Location MinTemp MaxTemp Rainfall Evaporation Sunshine WindGustDir
....

References

———. 2024. Knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in r. https://yihui.org/knitr/.

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