Base Objects like Data Frames for 'SciViews::R'

The {svBase} package sets up the way data frames (with objects like R base's data.frame, data.table and tibble tbl_df) are managed in SciViews::R. The user can select the class of object it uses by default and many other SciViews::R functions return that format. Conversion from one to the other is made easier, including for the management of data.frame's row names or data.table's keys. Also homogeneous ways to create a data frame or to print it are also provided.

Important functions

• dtx() creates a data frame in the preferred format, with the following functions dtbl(), dtf() and dtt() that force respectively the creation of a data frame in one of the specified three formats. Use getOption("SciViews.as_dtx", default = as_dtt) to specify which function to use to convert into the preferred format.