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

[Jianping Jin]

Hi James,

The readline worked pretty well. Thanks a lot!

best,

Jianping


--On Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:14 PM -0400 "James W. MacDonald" 
<jmacdon at med.umich.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Jianping
>>>>
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>>>
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> 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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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
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