[R] R GUI and object browser

[Patrick Connolly]

On Mon, 15-Jul-2002 at 01:13AM -0700, Dan Putler wrote:

|> As part of the obveRsive GUI project, we've written a function with
|> much of the functionality that Patrick Connolly was suggesting
|> (which is a bit more compact than the output from ls.str()).  Alas,
|> no date capabilities.  

My method of getting the dates is somewhat inelegant.  However, it
could be simple if there was a date attribute of objects.  Would such
a thing create an overhead that could be too burdensome for people who
don't have a use for it?  Perhaps it could be one of the general
options that users could customize.



|> The function is call ls.objects(), and example output appears below:
|> 
|>    Object.Name Object.Mode Object.Type Observations Variables
|> 1    ccsest.df        list  data.frame          800        21
|> 2    ccsval.df        list  data.frame          800        21
|> 3   junkfactor     numeric      factor          100         1
|> 4     junklist        list     unknown            -         -
|> 5      junkmat     numeric      matrix          100         2
|> 6    junkmodel        list          lm            -         -
|> 7   ls.objects    function    function            -         -
|> 8      orderdf    function    function            -         -
|> 9          pkg   character      vector            1         1
|> 10       stuff        list  data.frame           12         2
|> 11         try     numeric      vector          100         1
|> 12        try1     numeric      vector          100         1
|> 13        try2     numeric      vector          100         1
|> 14      trydat        list  data.frame          100         2
|> 15     tryname   character      vector            1         1

This is certainly less complicated than my approach and does some
things mine doesn't.

best

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