On 5/10/2006 2:52 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > Does R have command or object name completion? > > R has several functions of modern shells built into it e.g. history > mechanism, command-line editing, emacs key bindings. However, it > doesn't seem to have command or object name completion. For example, > in bash I can begin typing a command and then press the tab key to > have the shell fill in the rest of the command (works for environment > variables and filenames, too). Does command completion exist and I'm > not using it correctly or don't have it turned on, or is it really > not there?
It's not there, because some of the shells that run R supply it. I don't use one, but I think a couple of the popular ones are ESS and the Mac OS GUI. It would be a nice addition to the Windows GUI, but I don't know anyone who is working on it. 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. Others need to run under ESS. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
