R help - Jun 2010 - Get a list of installed commands

I'm pretty new to R, but have experience with other languages, both OO and
scripting.

I'm trying to add support for R to my text editor of choice and to do this I
need a list of installed commands I can markup with XML.
I'd then simply feed in the marked up list into my text editor's library
and I'm off.

I've done this in Stata before using the following command:
getcmds using "~/Desktop/StataCommands.txt"

Does anyone know of a way to do this in R?

Any pointers much appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi,

Take a look at any of the R-editors, like Tinn-R, Emacs-ESS, Eclipse
with StatET,... They contain lists you can use. Also the listings
package of LaTeX contains a wordlist for R.

Getting all installed commands out of R is not doable with a single
command as far as I know. R works completely different than Stata; R
is a fullblown programming language, not a statistical program. Try to
find a list of all installed Perl commands for example...

Attached is the recognition file of Tinn-R. Reserved 1 are special
keywords, Reserved 2 is a list of the most commonly used commands in
the pre-installed packages, and Reserved 3 is a list of common
parameters of those functions. It's submitted with Tinn-R under the
GNU license, so keep that in mind when using it.

But instead of re-inventing the wheel and constructing your own
editor, you could take a look at one of those mentioned above. On
Windows, I recommend Tinn-R for daily scripting, and Eclipse for
developing packages and the likes. Both offer the advantage of direct
communication with the R console.

Cheers
Joris

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Data Monkey <coco.datamonkey at
gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty new to R, but have experience with other languages, both OO
and scripting.
>
> I'm trying to add support for R to my text editor of choice and to do
this I need a list of installed commands I can markup with XML.
> I'd then simply feed in the marked up list into my text editor's
library and I'm off.
>
> I've done this in Stata before using the following command:
> getcmds using "~/Desktop/StataCommands.txt"
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do this in R?
>
> Any pointers much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
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On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Data Monkey <coco.datamonkey at
gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty new to R, but have experience with other languages, both OO
and scripting.
>
> I'm trying to add support for R to my text editor of choice and to do
this I need a list of installed commands I can markup with XML.
> I'd then simply feed in the marked up list into my text editor's
library and I'm off.
>
> I've done this in Stata before using the following command:
> getcmds using "~/Desktop/StataCommands.txt"
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do this in R?
>
> Any pointers much appreciated.
>
If "installed commands" means reserved words in R's parser then
see: ?Reserved