Printing dataframes with long strings in R

Question

Let\'s have a dataframe with long strings in one column:

 df<-data.frame(short=rnorm(10,0,1),long=replicate(10,paste(rep(sample(letters),runif(1,5,8)),collaps         


        

Answer 1

Uses dplyr and prints out a modified version of the original data frame (without changing it). Only shortens values which exceed specified length:

library(dplyr)

print.data.frame(df %>% mutate(long = ifelse(
    nchar(long > 11),
    paste0(substr(long, 1, 8), "..."),
    long
)))