On Mon, 21-Jun-2004 at 03:50PM +0100, Barry Rowlingson wrote: |> Duncan Murdoch wrote: |> |> |> > I seem to recall that S-PLUS has such a function, but I forget the |> > name of it. Probably R does too, on CRAN if not in the base |> > packages. |> |> objects.summary() I think it was. |> |> It always bothered me that the Nth thing you teach Unix users is 'ls' |> and the N+1th thing is 'ls -l' (for very small N). Then you teach them |> R, and there's no 'ls -l' equivalent immediately obvious. |> |> Not sure what such a function could show, there being no permissions, |> or dates on R objects, but object.size() and class/mode at least would |> be useful. |> |> So is something like this in CRAN? I say +1 to putting it in the base |> packages....
I hesitate to mention it again. Last time I did there was minimal interest. However, the question has been asked again, so perhaps now is different.... I made myself a function in the S-PLUS days which I've modified to work in R. It involved adding another few functions to add dates to objects. This is the sort of output it gives: Object Mode Rows Cols Len Date 1 last.warning list -- -- 1 NA/NA/NA 2 sim.notuff17C.df dataframe 100 9 9 09/06/2004 3 box.sim function -- -- 1 04/06/2004 4 box.simC function -- -- 1 04/06/2004 5 multi.sim function -- -- 1 04/06/2004 6 multi.simC function -- -- 1 04/06/2004 7 sim.100B function -- -- 1 04/06/2004 8 sim.100C function -- -- 1 04/06/2004 9 sim.100.df dataframe 100 9 9 04/06/2004 10 sim.notuff17.df dataframe 100 9 9 04/06/2004 11 sim.notuff.df dataframe 100 9 9 04/06/2004 12 sim.tuff.df dataframe 100 9 9 04/06/2004 13 aa numeric 100 9 900 03/06/2004 14 sim.100A function -- -- 1 03/06/2004 15 sim.100 function -- -- 1 01/06/2004 16 develop.df dataframe 161 7 7 28/05/2004 17 glm.both function -- -- 1 24/05/2004 18 lm.gall function -- -- 1 24/05/2004 19 aphidgall.df dataframe 79 4 4 12/05/2004 20 pears.gall function -- -- 1 13/11/2003 21 glm.gallEPS function -- -- 1 27/08/2003 I've toyed with the idea of adding an object size column but it's not important enough for my use. Since I revisit projects over a period of years at times, the date is very useful information -- in fact, it's the main reason why I wrote it. My code is not elegant enough for an esteemed place on CRAN. I could make it a lot better myself if I spent the time on it, but it works well enough for me as it is, so in that sense, it ain't broke. However, if anyone is interested in having such functionality my code could be a good starting point. Best -- Patrick Connolly HortResearch Mt Albert Auckland New Zealand Ph: +64-9 815 4200 x 7188 ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ I have the world`s largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world ... Perhaps you`ve seen it. ---Steven Wright ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html