I do agree that this is a printing issue rather than a function issue. R just spits a lot of data when printing a df and you do need head and tail to make sense of large dataframes. Those functions can be replaced with a nicer output, that does not overwhelm the REPL and allows a quick glance at the df to make sure things worked as expected. I understand a lot of us have a lot of “ticks” and muscle memory patterns coming from R, but when I thought about some of the desing choices in R, they really don’t make much sense, while most of them do in Julia.
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