I want to use the function skim from R package skimr on Windows. Unfortunately, in many situations column, hist is printed incorrectly (with many <U+2587>-like symbols), as in the example below.
Question: is there an easy way to either disable column "hist" and prevent it from being printed or prevent it from being calculated at all? Is there an option like hist = FALSE?
capture.output(skimr::skim(iris))
#> [1] "Skim summary statistics"
#> [2] " n obs: 150 "
#> [3] " n variables: 5 "
#> [4] ""
#> [5] "-- Variable type:factor ------------------------------------------------------------------------"
#> [6] " variable missing complete n n_unique top_counts"
#> [7] " Species 0 150 150 3 set: 50, ver: 50, vir: 50, NA: 0"
#> [8] " ordered"
#> [9] " FALSE"
#> [10] ""
#> [11] "-- Variable type:numeric -----------------------------------------------------------------------"
#> [12] " variable missing complete n mean sd p0 p25 p50 p75 p100"
#> [13] " Petal.Length 0 150 150 3.76 1.77 1 1.6 4.35 5.1 6.9"
#> [14] " Petal.Width 0 150 150 1.2 0.76 0.1 0.3 1.3 1.8 2.5"
#> [15] " Sepal.Length 0 150 150 5.84 0.83 4.3 5.1 5.8 6.4 7.9"
#> [16] " Sepal.Width 0 150 150 3.06 0.44 2 2.8 3 3.3 4.4"
#> [17] " hist"
#> [18] " <U+2587><U+2581><U+2581><U+2582><U+2585><U+2585><U+2583><U+2581>"
#> [19] " <U+2587><U+2581><U+2581><U+2585><U+2583><U+2583><U+2582><U+2582>"
#> [20] " <U+2582><U+2587><U+2585><U+2587><U+2586><U+2585><U+2582><U+2582>"
#> [21] " <U+2581><U+2582><U+2585><U+2587><U+2583><U+2582><U+2581><U+2581>"
Changing the locale to Chinese (as in this answer) does not solve the problem, but makes it worse:
Sys.setlocale(locale = "Lithuanian")
df <- data.frame(x = 1:5, y = c("Ą", "Č", "Ę", "ū", "ž"))
Sys.setlocale(locale = "Chinese")
capture.output(skimr::skim(df))
#> Error in substr(names(x), 1, options$formats$.levels$max_char) : invalid multibyte string at '<c0>'
