[R] R GUI and object browser

[Patrick Connolly]

On Thu, 11-Jul-2002 at 07:58PM -0400, Mike Prager wrote:

|> At 10:37 AM 07/11/2002 +0200, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
|> >Several users noticed that the only part of the Splus GUI they
|> >use is the object explorer. So, wouldn't an R object explorer be a good
|> >addition to the current interface?
|> 
|> Yes!  I hope the core development team will consider it.

It's not very difficult to write a function that lists your objects in
a dataframe along with the sort of information you'd like to see.  I
personally like to know the size of dataframes so it was simple to
make columns that shows the dimensions.  It was somewhat trickier to
get the date but I like to have it, so I did it.  

My current directory has things like this in it:


      Object        Mode   Rows Cols Len    Date   
1 fmr.pvh2000    function  --    --   1  12/07/2002
2 last.warning   list      --    --   5  12/07/2002
3 pvh.latto2000  function  --    --   1  09/07/2002
4 pvh.latto2000A function  --    --   1  09/07/2002
5 rain.plot2000  function  --    --   1  09/07/2002
6 accum2000      function  --    --   1  04/07/2002
7 pvh.latto4     function  --    --   1  04/07/2002
8 side.df        dataframe 1000  5    5  04/07/2002


I wrote my function some years ago and could do it much better knowing
what I know now, but if someone wants to make something generally
available, mine might be a good starting point.

best


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