On May 26, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Timothy Bates wrote:
Hi all,
Fantastic that the revamped editor has variable finding (type
yourData$ then tab if you have not already)!!
I had not. That _is_ a nice surprise. It might be more user-friendly
if logic could be installed that detects when the window is at the
bottom of the screen (as I generally set up my display) because the
scroll is currently only "drop-down" (which disappears) and it would
be nice if it would "drop-up". Or perhaps a preference switch that
could be "up" or "down"?
I often find still, however, that in a workflow I repeatedly run
"names(myData)” because I can’t remember how a variable is named in
a data set.
I generally use (at the console window):
grep(patt, names(dfrm), value=TRUE)
... since I have 100-200 names per dataframe and I only want to see
the 5- 15 names that have a particular two or three letter string in
them.
I think Workspace Browser is underused in this respect: It actually
replaces a lot of the visual benefit that a spreadsheet offers for
thinking about dataFrame).
And look at that.... clickable arrows to expand tables and dataframes!
Workspace Browser could become even more widely used and helpful if
it had:
1. A filter like the lovely history browser
I had overlooked that search window at the top of the History panel.
NICE.
I guess that is the grep functionality.
2. Sortable by object, type, structure, (and preferably size for
spotting space hogs)
Wishlist… :-)
Thanks for educating me and thanks to Simon and Hans-Joerg and anyone
else whose work contributes to the Mac version and the GUI improvements.
--
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
<PastedGraphic-1.png>_______________________________________________
R-SIG-Mac mailing list
[email protected]
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
_______________________________________________
R-SIG-Mac mailing list
[email protected]
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
