order in browser mode

[Jewel Bright <jwlbright@yahoo.com>]

Dear S-PLUS users:

Recently I switched from  S-PLUS-2000 to S-PLUS 6.2. Among many differences, I discovered the following one which I believe is unfortunate, (of course, if I am not missing something). It is related to the 'browser()' function. In S-PLUS 2000, when you type the question mark while in browser mode, the variable being browsed are generally ordered in the order of their assignments in your function. If for example you had two adjacent statements in your function like

x<-bla1

y<-bla2

then in browser mode the variables x and y would be adjacent too.

 

In S-PLUS 6.2, the variables seem to be listed chaotically, neither alphabetically nor chronologically. If your function is cumbersome and contains a couple of dozen of intermediate parameters, then the search becomes a challenging task

 

My question: is there any logic behind ordering the variables in browser()?

Is that possible to somehow control this order?

Thank you in advance

 

Jewel Bright

 

 

 

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