R help - May 2009 - a simple trick to get autoclose parenthesis on windows

Hi,

This is a simple trick to get autoclose parenthesis on windows.
If you like how StatET autocloses parens, but like to use the lighter
Vanilla R, you can use autohotkey (http://autohotkey.net) to provide
this functionality.

Simply put the below code in a text file, rename extension as .ahk and
doubleclick on it to execute.


------------------ code starts here 8< ------------------


; Vanilla R
; ============================================================#IfWinActive,
ahk_class Rgui
    ; autoclose parens
    (::Send (){left}
    "::Send ""{left}
return

------------------ code ends here 8< ------------------

Silly, but I find it very convenient.

Best,
-Jose

-- 
Jose Quesada, PhD.
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition -ABC-, 
Lentzeallee 94, office 224, 14195 Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Hi, I was looking for your sendcodetoR.ahk autohotkey script
> but couldn't find it.  Would you be able to point me to it.
> Thanks.
>   
Here's what I have right now, it also maps right alt to send code to R.
You should change the ahk_class to your editor of choice (here it's
vim). To get the ahk_class, you need to run the atoit_spy (comes with
every autohotkey install).

HTH,
-Jose

; F3 and right alt will send selection to open Rgui
#WinActivateForce
    F3::
    IfWinExist, ahk_class Rgui
    {
        Send ^c                    ; copy selection to clipboard
        WinActivate ; R Console
        save = %clipboard%
        sendinput, {Raw}%save%
        sendinput,{enter}
        Sleep 1000
        WinActivate, ahk_class Vim
    }

    Ralt::
    IfWinExist, ahk_class Rgui
    {
        Send ^c                    ; copy selection to clipboard
            WinActivate ; R Console
            save = %clipboard%
            sendinput, {Raw}%save%
            sendinput,{enter}
        Sleep 1000
            WinActivate, ahk_class Vim
    }
return


-- 
Jose Quesada, PhD.
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition -ABC-, 
Lentzeallee 94, office 224, 14195 Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/