Hello, I was just tweaking the R build for the Homebrew package manager and I thought it would be nice to enable bash completion. I noticed that Debian-based systems install `/etc/bash_completion.d/R` but could not find a source for this file in the `etc` folder of the R source. Is the R bash completion script publicly available somewhere so that it could be pulled in by curl? ----- Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Source-for-bash-completion-d-R-tp3490662p3490662.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 2 May 2011 at 11:32, Sharpie wrote:
| Hello, I was just tweaking the R build for the Homebrew package manager and I
| thought it would be nice to enable bash completion. I noticed that
| Debian-based systems install `/etc/bash_completion.d/R` but could not find a
| source for this file in the `etc` folder of the R source.
Right. This started off via a suggestion by Deepayan and a quick install via
a local-to-Debian-package-sources file, and has never moved away from that.
I am CCing Deepayan now; it may indeed be useful to commit this in the R svn
and to add it to the tarball as the feature is very, very useful if you
deplay bash completion.
Dirk
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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:> > On 2 May 2011 at 11:32, Sharpie wrote: > | Hello, I was just tweaking the R build for the Homebrew package manager and I > | thought it would be nice to enable bash completion. I noticed that > | Debian-based systems install `/etc/bash_completion.d/R` but could not find a > | source for this file in the `etc` folder of the R source. > > Right. This started off via a suggestion by Deepayan and a quick install via > a local-to-Debian-package-sources file, and has never moved away from that. > > I am CCing Deepayan now; it may indeed be useful to commit this in the R svn > and to add it to the tarball as the feature is very, very useful if you > deplay bash completion.I vaguely remember a discussion on r-core where the consensus was that this was too shell-specific to belong in the R sources. It has been publicly available (for a long time) at http://code.google.com/p/rcompletion/source/browse/trunk/bash_completion/R (could use a little work now). -Deepayan> > Dirk > > -- > Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?-- #11 at http://www.gaussfacts.com > >