[BioC] [Spam:8.0] Re: R command history on unix version

[James W. MacDonald]

Jianping Jin wrote:
> readline is available on our server side. Do I need to ask a system 
> administer to re-compile R with adding readline?

I don't think so. If readline was installed when R was compiled, I think 
you should be good.

> 
>> use up and down arrows just like on win32. However, running at a terminal
>> is IMO really not the way to do things. I much prefer to use Xemacs/ESS
>> with R as an inferior process. In that case you can use M-p and M-n
>> (Alt-p and Alt-n for non-(X)emacs folks) to go up and down in the 
>> history.
> 
> 
> I added Xemacs to my account on the server and was able to initiate the 
> Xemacs:*scratch* window. But I do not know how to run R from within 
> Xemacs. I can type commands and initiate xterm window. It gave me an 
> error message, however, when I tried to run R on the Xemacs Shell 
> command: "fatal error: you must specify '--save', '--no-save' or 
> '--vanilla'".
> 

Do you have ESS installed in your Xemacs? See here for more information:

http://ess.r-project.org/

>>
>> On win32, adding this to my init.el file makes the up and down arrows
>> work just like the Rgui, but doesn't seem to work on Linux.
> 
> 
> On my desktop computer I did not find any file called init.el to which I 
> can add your script. Is this an alternative to the two ways described 
> above?

This file doesn't exist until you make one. John Fox has been nice 
enough to make a very detailed instruction manual for win32 here:

http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/ESS/

Best,

Jim


> 
> I greatly appreciate your help!
> 
> Jianping
> 
>>
>> (eval-after-load
>>     "comint"
>>     '(progn
>>        (setq comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output 'others) ; not current
>>        ;;=default: (setq comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-input nil)
>>        (setq comint-scroll-show-maximum-output t) ;;; this is the key
>>        (define-key comint-mode-map [up]
>>          'comint-previous-matching-input-from-input)
>>        (define-key comint-mode-map [down]
>>          'comint-next-matching-input-from-input)
>>
>>        (define-key comint-mode-map "\C-a" 'comint-bol)))
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> James W. MacDonald, M.S.
>> Biostatistician
>> Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
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> 
> 
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> x Jianping Jin Ph.D.            x
> x Bioinformatics scientist      x
> x Center for bioinformatics     x
> x 3133 Bioinformatics Building  x
> x CB# 7104                      x
> x University of North Carolina  x
> x Chapel Hill, NC 27599         x
> x Tel: (919)843-6105            x
> x Fax: (919)843-3103            x
> x E-mail: jjin at email.unc.edu    x
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-- 
James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
7410 CCGC
Ann Arbor MI 48109
734-647-5623


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