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example for
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Just an FYI, the output looks similar to something you'd get with
There are lots of possibilities for how the arguments could be tweaked if you prefer something different. For example, you can use |
@gsee the biggest difference in the output is that But also, if I want to grab all of my, say, Date columns I can simply do
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As a mere data.table user, I like this function a lot! |
Ahh, that's a shame. I use this
I feel this function will be most useful when working interactive, so less |
Hm, How about naming it Or |
I like both |
Should not the returned object be wide instead of long? so that |
@rsaporta "describe" sounds great. |
FWIW, describe is an S3 generic in Hmisc. On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Arun notifications@github.com wrote:
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My Information schema branch looks heavily related to this one. Somehow an extension of your proposal, it also construct the gathered metadata into data.table object so it can be easier to utilize. |
Please file an issue if this needs to be revisited. Closing this for now. |
desc(DT)
is a simple analogy to desc in SQL.print
method supplied which groups together columns by class