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.
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.