[R] Stem and leaf display?

[Richard A. O'Keefe]

I would like to do some fairly basic stem-and-leaf displays in R.
I am aware (I might even say painfully aware) of stem(base) and
have tried it.  That's why I'm hoping someone has a usable stem-
and-leaf display for R so that I don't have to write my own.

r-project.org > Search > R Site Search > "stem and leaf display"
finds nothing.

I also tried the mail archive search, but couldn't figure out how
to search the bodies of the messages.

For the record, there are some less important things that I would
like to have (like depths and outlier lines), and it is a pity that
the "atom" argument of stem() is effectively undocumented (it's a
tolerance, fine, but what _of_ and how used?), but I'd put up with
stem() the way it is if only it didn't do things like displaying
5.67 and 5.78 as
    56 | 78
which makes it effectively unusable.  What good is a stem and leaf
plot where you can't recover the leading digits of the numbers correctly?