[R] command completion? [Broadcast]

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Thu May 11 04:08:42 CEST 2006


From: François Pinard
> 
> [Duncan Murdoch]
> >[Robert Citek]
> 
> >> Does R have command or object name completion?
> 
> >[...] 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.
> 
> We have to put things in perspective, here.  In my opinion, 
> object name completion would be a lot more useful than 
> filename completion, because in R, we name R objects much 
> more often than we name files.
> 
> >Others need to run under ESS.
> 
> While this is a good things for Emacs lovers, the requirement 
> is rather unwelcome for pagans!  :-)

If ESS is too Catholic for you, JGR might be the Reformation...

Andy
 
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