Accessing all VIEW data in a preprocess hook
The result array in the Views object contains the row information so yes, if you need to access the results, this is the way to do it.

For example, including:

function YOURMODULE_preprocess_views_view(&amp;$variables) {

  $view=$variables['view'];
  drupal_set_message('&lt;pre&gt;' . print_r($view-&gt;result, TRUE) . '&lt;/pre&gt;');

}


and then a quick View that just returns node objects would look like this:



and a View that returns fields (in this case just titles) would look like this:



and then when you actually include custom fields, you get that big _field_data array, eg:




but you should also see it in a more top level area of the results as well:



Also, a quick look at views_get_view_result() might shed some more "this is how we do it" confirmation/information on Views results.  Also What is the hook to preprocess a view and Changing values in preprocess view function talk about other options available to you in the Views API.