Data Editor Question

I was wondering, does R allow you to open a data editor, look at all
data, variable names, variable labels, and sort by multiple variables?
?Would you want to use R if you have to clean a complex data set in R?

Hi, Francis.

If you are looking for a GUI to examine your data, like Excel, then
not really.  However, R is exactly the place to go for "cleaning"
complex data.  See, for example, the functions summary(), head(),
colnames(), sort(), and order().

If R does not have an advanced data editor is there an open source
program that would handle these tasks well?

R IS an advanced data editor.  However, the interace is not point-and-click.

Sean