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MaxItems

is an option that specifies the maximum number of items to be used or shown.

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MaxItems

MaxItems

is an option that specifies the maximum number of items to be used or shown.

Details

  • When supported, MaxItemsAll specifies that all items in the input should be used or shown.
  • In Dataset, settings for MaxItems can be given as follows:
  • mdisplay m rows
    {m1, m2,…,mn}display mi items at dataset level i

Examples

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Basic Examples  (4)

Create a word cloud with only 10 items:

Generate data sampled from a mixture of normal distributions:

Estimate the best distribution from this data:

Estimate the best distribution with only two mixtures:

Compare the PDFs for the original and estimated distributions:

Specify the number of files in each directory that will apply FileSize in FileSystemMap:

Limit the number of rows and columns displayed in Dataset:

Scope  (1)

Search for a limited number of resource objects:

Wolfram Research (2015), MaxItems, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MaxItems.html (updated 2020).

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), MaxItems, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MaxItems.html (updated 2020).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "MaxItems." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2020. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MaxItems.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). MaxItems. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MaxItems.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_maxitems, author="Wolfram Research", title="{MaxItems}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MaxItems.html}", note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_maxitems, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={MaxItems}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MaxItems.html}, note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}