On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux <ren...@mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote: > "BTW: an ever more intuitive solution (IMHO) would be to auto-complete > package names in library( ... Deepayan?;) That is non-intrusive and in line > with the general use of R." (Simon) > > This is indeed a long wanted feature and to my surprise it actually already > exists!!! (seems that Deepayan did not tell anybody about it ;) ) > The help page ?completion in the utils package explains how to enable it: > > utils::rc.settings(ipck=TRUE) > > It simply worked on my Ubuntu box -- and directly went in my .Rprofile :) > Hope this helps. >
Also in terms of what exists now, on Windows the Packages > Load Package menu on Rgui provides a gui interface to library() from which one chooses the package from a list so one can't ask for one that does not exist. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel