S-Plus has a great object explorer and data editor built into its GUI. It allows you to easily see all the objects in the workspace at a glance, and sort them by name, size
The lsos() function shown in this SO questions is also a primitive object browser:
R> lsos()
Type Size Rows Columns
ls.objects function 11792 NA NA
lsos function 1112 NA NA
s numeric 824 100 NA
y numeric 184 20 NA
x numeric 56 3 NA
z logical 32 1 NA
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