R help - Sep 2010 - Emacs function argument hints

Hi 

I've recently started using Emacs as my text editor for writing R script. 

I am looking for a feature which I have seen on the standard R text editor
for Mac OS. In the Mac OS editor when you start typing a function, the
possible arguments for that function appear at the bottom of the window.
E.g. if you type "table( "  before you finish typing you can see at
the
bottom of the window:

 

table(..., exclude = if (useNA == "no") c(NA, NaN), useNA =
c("no",
    "ifany", "always"), dnn = list.names(...), deparse.level
= 1)

 

I think this feature may be called "function argument hints" but
I'm not
sure and searching the archive with that term has not produced anything
useful.

Is this feature available in Emacs or any other windows text editor for R?

 

Thanks very much

Tim

 

(Using Windows XP, R 2.11.1, GNU Emacs 23.2.1)

 


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Hi Tim,
This works out of the box for me, with ESS 5.11 and Emacs 23.1

-Ista

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Tim Elwell-Sutton <tesutton at hku.hk>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've recently started using Emacs as my text editor for writing R
script.
>
> I am looking for a feature which I have seen on the standard R text editor
> for Mac OS. In the Mac OS editor when you start typing a function, the
> possible arguments for that function appear at the bottom of the window.
> E.g. if you type "table( "  before you finish typing you can see
at the
> bottom of the window:
>
>
>
> table(..., exclude = if (useNA == "no") c(NA, NaN), useNA =
c("no",
>    "ifany", "always"), dnn = list.names(...),
deparse.level = 1)
>
>
>
> I think this feature may be called "function argument hints" but
I'm not
> sure and searching the archive with that term has not produced anything
> useful.
>
> Is this feature available in Emacs or any other windows text editor for R?
>
>
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> (Using Windows XP, R 2.11.1, GNU Emacs 23.2.1)
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org