[R] R GUI and object browser

[Gatehouse, Simon (E&M, North Ryde)]

Mike,
I agree that a date stamp would be generally useful, notwithstanding the
issue to do with composite objects. 

I find it most useful when trying to track versions of functions I am
developing and less so for imported data (they have their own external
stamps) and less so for internally generated, often tempory, R data. 

I have affixed the following line just before the assign command in the
'fix' function which accesses my editor.

attr(x,"date.modified")_date()

and viewed using:

attr(x,"date.modified")

This fills a date.modified attribute to all information passing through the
editor.  
I have modified the ls() function to display this date when listing R
objects. 

Its not optimum but is a convenient fix for me.

Regards
Simon Gatehouse


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Prager [mailto:mprager at alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 4:53 AM
To: Patrick Connolly
Cc: R-help
Subject: Re: [R] R GUI and object browser


At 09:54 AM 07/18/2002 +1200, Patrick Connolly wrote:
>If hardly anyone agrees with me that the dates are useful to know,
>it's certainly not worthwhile.

For me (only 1 user), the dates would be welcome, but a low priority.  An 
object browser would be useful, by which I mean something in a separate 
window. That would avoid constantly filling up the command (main) window 
and history with commands to recall the object names, which otherwise I am 
prone to forget (though probably not more so than any other 50+ year old).


--
Mike Prager  (mprager at alum.mit.edu)
Beaufort, North Carolina

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