On 26 May 2011, at 18:19, David Winsemius wrote: > On May 26, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Timothy Bates wrote: >> >> Fantastic that the revamped editor has variable finding (type yourData$ then >> tab if you have not already)!! > I had not. That _is_ a nice surprise.
For the records the Mac GUI now makes usage of the rcompgen package AND it's configurable (see ?rcompgen). > It might be more user-friendly if logic could be installed that detects when > the window is at the bottom of the screen (as I generally set up my display) > because the scroll is currently only "drop-down" (which disappears) and it > would be nice if it would "drop-up". Or perhaps a preference switch that > could be "up" or "down"? If there's enough space under the current edited line it will come up as "drop-down" otherwise, if the RConsole window is at the bottom of the screen, it'll come up as "drop-up". In future I would like to replace the standard Mac completion approach by a self-written "narrow-down-while-typing-list", maybe including the chance to customise its appearance; and maybe to implement a kind of auto-completion. Be patient ;) >> I often find still, however, that in a workflow I repeatedly run >> "names(myData)” because I can’t remember how a variable is named in a data >> set. > > I generally use (at the console window): > grep(patt, names(dfrm), value=TRUE) > ... since I have 100-200 names per dataframe and I only want to see the 5- 15 > names that have a particular two or three letter string in them. Good point. Maybe we're able to improve the Workspace browser for such tasks... >> Workspace Browser could become even more widely used and helpful if it had: >> 1. A filter like the lovely history browser > I had overlooked that search window at the top of the History panel. NICE. > I guess that is the grep functionality. For the records it's bound to key equivalent ⇧⌘H and it makes usage of Mac's ICU regex engine implemented via Cocoa's NSPredicate, ergo similar to grep :) Cheers, --Hans ********************************************************** Hans-Joerg Bibiko Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Linguistics Deutscher Platz 6 phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 341 D-04103 Leipzig fax: +49 (0) 341 3550 333 Germany e-mail: bibiko[-at-]eva.mpg.de _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
