View data files from Dired via ESS and R. (require 'dired-view-data) (dired-view-data-global-mode) or enable the minor mode in Dired buffers manually: (dired-view-data-mode 1) In a Dired buffer, call `dired-view-data' (`V' or `C-c C-v') on a data file (sas7bdat, xpt, xlsx/xls, parquet, sav, dta, rds, csv, tsv, rda or rdata) and a buffer pops up with the data rendered by `ess-view-data'. Add or change formats via `dired-view-data-data-name-format'. Quit the R session with `dired-view-data-quit-session'. Optionally set `dired-view-data-guess-shell-alist-p' to t to also hook `dired-do-shell-command' (`!') for those files; it is off by default. See NEWS.md for what changed in version 2.