Does R have command or object name completion? R has several functions of modern shells built into it e.g. history mechanism, command-line editing, emacs key bindings. However, it doesn't seem to have command or object name completion. For example, in bash I can begin typing a command and then press the tab key to have the shell fill in the rest of the command (works for environment variables and filenames, too). Does command completion exist and I'm not using it correctly or don't have it turned on, or is it really not there? Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
On 5/10/2006 2:52 PM, Robert Citek wrote:> Does R have command or object name completion? > > R has several functions of modern shells built into it e.g. history > mechanism, command-line editing, emacs key bindings. However, it > doesn't seem to have command or object name completion. For example, > in bash I can begin typing a command and then press the tab key to > have the shell fill in the rest of the command (works for environment > variables and filenames, too). Does command completion exist and I'm > not using it correctly or don't have it turned on, or is it really > not there?It's not there, because some of the shells that run R supply it. I don't use one, but I think a couple of the popular ones are ESS and the Mac OS GUI. It would be a nice addition to the Windows GUI, but I don't know anyone who is working on it. I don't think it would be a welcome change to the console versions; some of them use readline's filename completion which would almost certainly be broken by this. Others need to run under ESS. Duncan Murdoch
On Wed, 10 May 2006 13:26:32 -0700 Berton Gunter wrote:> Is the following a fortunes package candidate?...promoted to fortunes package member in the devel-version. thx, Z> > > >Others need to run under ESS. > > > > While this is a good things for Emacs lovers, the requirement > > is rather > > unwelcome for pagans! :-) > > > > -- > > Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > > > :-) > > -- Bert > >