On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, hadley wickham wrote: > On 4/13/07, Roger Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've noticed something recently in R-beta that has changed since R 2.4.1 >> and I'm not sure if it's a readline problem or an R problem. I am on a >> Linux FC5 system and in R 2.4.1 I could do >> >> load("my-directory/ >> >> and then hit TAB and it would list all of the files in 'my-directory', >> after which I could start typing the beginning of the file, hit TAB >> again, and it would complete the file name along with adding the closing >> double quote. >> >> In R-beta, when I try the same thing, nothing happens (i.e. no directory >> listing and no file name completion). Specifically, if I type >> >> load("my >> >> and then it TAB, it will complete the 'my-directory' but it will not >> look further into the files inside of 'my-directory'. >> >> Also, I've noticed that if I rename 'my-directory' to 'mydirectory' (so >> no dash), everything works fine (just like in R 2.4.1). >> >> Has anyone else noticed this? > > I've noticed that if I have the rcompgen library loaded - perhaps > you've installed that recently?
Loading rcompgen is the default uner 2.5.0 beta, but you can turn it off. This is in the USER-VISIBLE CHANGES in NEWS: just how prominent does it need to be? It is a feature of the rcompletion interface to rcompgen, now part of base R. From the source code comment These break line into tokens. Unfortunately, this also breaks file names, so a path with a - in it will not be completed. We decided to make this the default in 2.5.0 to get user feedback: if it was not switched on few people would use it. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel