Hi,

On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
> Of late I am using the data editor extensively, not for editing, but
> for viewing large dataframes. I realized that, in these situations the
> "View" option of a dataframe is not at all friendly, rather, with a
> non-Mono font, is quite clumsy.

ok, well, we could and should use a fixed spaced font, there, of course.

> The spreadsheet structure of the 
> editor is too good as compared to the output of summary(data.frame) or
> print(data.frame). I am sure some of you will agree with me.
>   So, I was thinking if it is possible to have a read-only mode for
> viewing a data frame in the spreadsheet structure. In other words,
> View can be renamed as Summary and Edit can be split up into (a) Edit
> in spreadsheet and (b) View in spreadsheet.
>   Of course, this calls for extensive cpp code changes, where I am
> utterly useless. The onus will be on the hardcore cpp coders. What do
> you think?

Sounds like a good idea and should not be too hard to do. Could you add all 
this as a feature request, though, since I won't get around to this, too 
soon?

Regards
Thomas

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