As Uwe said, you can't really do that in R. S-PLUS can do that because it stores each object as a separate file on disk, thus you can get time stamp from the file. In R everything is in the global environment that can be saved to a single workspace (.RData by default). There have been some discussions quite a while ago on how time stamping objects in R can be done. You may want to search the archive. The mbvutils package has tools for organizing objects, but I don't know if it provides time stamps. Andy
From: Robert Kinley It's often useful to view objects in time order. In Splus I can do this with
objects.summary(order = "dataset.date")
which delivers this sort of thing ...
data.class storage.mode extent object.size
dataset.date
reference data.frame list 25 x 4
1700 2004.09.13
15:43
x data.frame list 15 x 4
1175 2004.09.13
15:43
lower numeric double 100
841 2004.10.05
11:10
upper numeric double 100
841 2004.10.05
11:10
barnard function function 12
20013 2005.04.08
13:09
sim7 function function 5
3657 2005.04.14
15:36
.Last.fixed character character 1
52 2005.04.14
15:38
runsim function function 6
3952 2005.04.14
15:38
last.dump list list 8
1186 2005.05.12
11:57
How can one obtain something similar with R ? [ R
2.1.0 / windows
2000 ]
cheers
Bob Kinley
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