Re: [R] Command-line editing history
Unless, of course, like me, you run vim for religious reasons ;) Seriously, though, it seems that this functionality is not available in the R Console, correct? I have tried many GUI front-ends and found that there are both advantages and unfortunately disadvantages to their use---certainly in the way that I normally work---hence the best solution, for me at least, would be to have added functionality in the R Console. Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, all those features (and more) are available if you run R within ESS/(X)Emacs. Andy From: John McHenry Hi all, Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line editing and history editing on the command line? In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type p and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the recently entered commands beginning with p. This is a very useful feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. Please correct me if I'm wrong; currently I use history(Inf) in R, search for what I want and cut and paste if I find what I'm looking for. Also in MATLAB, tab completion is available for directory listings and also for function name completion. Again, I'm unaware of how to do this in R. The added MATLAB functionality makes finding files easy on the command line and it also saves the fingers on long function names. Thanks, Jack. - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- -- - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Command-line editing history
John McHenry wrote: Hi all, Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line editing and history editing on the command line? Presuming you're running R from a Unix console (I'm unsure of the windows port, maybe?), it is sufficient, insofar as how well you like the GNU readline library and if it's been compiled into R: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html I can even use VI style key bindings to work with historical commands: Typing K recalls previous commands, J goes forward through the commands. I can even search through the commands. Auto completion of function names doesn't work but file names do. One point that was a bit of work for me to set up was automatically saving history. In order to do this, you must first set the environment variable R_HISTFILE to the location of your saved history file. Then, at the end of your R session, you can run: savehistory(Sys.getenv(R_HISTFILE) Or better yet, put the following in your .Rprofile: .Last - function() savehistory(Sys.getenv(R_HISTFILE)) In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type p and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the recently entered commands beginning with p. This is a very useful feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. Please correct me if I'm wrong; currently I use history(Inf) in R, search for what I want and cut and paste if I find what I'm looking for. Also in MATLAB, tab completion is available for directory listings and also for function name completion. Again, I'm unaware of how to do this in R. The added MATLAB functionality makes finding files easy on the command line and it also saves the fingers on long function names. Thanks, Jack. - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Jeffrey Horner Computer Systems Analyst School of Medicine 615-322-8606 Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Command-line editing history
John == John McHenry [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 3 Mar 2006 07:07:11 -0800 (PST) writes: John Unless, of course, like me, you run vim for religious reasons ;) John Seriously, though, it seems that this functionality is not available in the R Console, correct? John I have tried many GUI front-ends and found that there are both advantages and unfortunately disadvantages to their use---certainly in the way that I normally work---hence the best solution, for me at least, would be to have added functionality in the R Console. John, I think you never said on which platform (Unixish / Mac / Windows) you work, since the consoles differ. But in all three cases, everything is built on free software (contrary to Matlab), so you could go ahead and improve the console behavior and post the improved sources for future inclusion. One advantage in using ESS has been that you have the (almost) identical interface on all computer platforms. Regards, Martin Maechler ETH Zurich John Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, all those features (and more) are available if you run John R within ESS/(X)Emacs. John Andy John From: John McHenry Hi all, Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line editing and history editing on the command line? In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type p and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the recently entered commands beginning with p. This is a very useful feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. Please correct me if I'm wrong; currently I use history(Inf) in R, search for what I want and cut and paste if I find what I'm looking for. Also in MATLAB, tab completion is available for directory listings and also for function name completion. Again, I'm unaware of how to do this in R. The added MATLAB functionality makes finding files easy on the command line and it also saves the fingers on long function names. Thanks, Jack. - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html John -- John -- John - John [[alternative HTML version deleted]] John __ John R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list John https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help John PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Command-line editing history
Oops, should have included: version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major2 minor2.1 year 2005 month12 day 20 svn rev 36812 language R So, no, I'm on the Windoze port. So I guess my question changes to: Does anyone know if there are plans / is it possible to add GNU Readline functionality in the Windoze port? I especially like the fact that vi key bindings are available ;) Thanks, Jack. Jeffrey Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McHenry wrote: Hi all, Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line editing and history editing on the command line? Presuming you're running R from a Unix console (I'm unsure of the windows port, maybe?), it is sufficient, insofar as how well you like the GNU readline library and if it's been compiled into R: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html I can even use VI style key bindings to work with historical commands: Typing K recalls previous commands, J goes forward through the commands. I can even search through the commands. Auto completion of function names doesn't work but file names do. One point that was a bit of work for me to set up was automatically saving history. In order to do this, you must first set the environment variable R_HISTFILE to the location of your saved history file. Then, at the end of your R session, you can run: savehistory(Sys.getenv(R_HISTFILE) Or better yet, put the following in your .Rprofile: .Last - function() savehistory(Sys.getenv(R_HISTFILE)) In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type p and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the recently entered commands beginning with p. This is a very useful feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. Please correct me if I'm wrong; currently I use history(Inf) in R, search for what I want and cut and paste if I find what I'm looking for. Also in MATLAB, tab completion is available for directory listings and also for function name completion. Again, I'm unaware of how to do this in R. The added MATLAB functionality makes finding files easy on the command line and it also saves the fingers on long function names. Thanks, Jack. - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Jeffrey Horner Computer Systems Analyst School of Medicine 615-322-8606 Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Command-line editing history
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, John McHenry wrote: Oops, should have included: version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major2 minor2.1 year 2005 month12 day 20 svn rev 36812 language R So, no, I'm on the Windoze port. So I guess my question changes to: Does anyone know if there are plans / is it possible to add GNU Readline functionality in the Windoze port? No plans, especially as Rterm.exe already has getline with very similar functionality. But of course you are welcome to contribute your own Windows console with readline functionality. We look forwards to hearing how you get on. -- 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, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
[R] Command-line editing history
Hi all, Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line editing and history editing on the command line? In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type p and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the recently entered commands beginning with p. This is a very useful feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. Please correct me if I'm wrong; currently I use history(Inf) in R, search for what I want and cut and paste if I find what I'm looking for. Also in MATLAB, tab completion is available for directory listings and also for function name completion. Again, I'm unaware of how to do this in R. The added MATLAB functionality makes finding files easy on the command line and it also saves the fingers on long function names. Thanks, Jack. - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Command-line editing history
Unless I'm mistaken, all those features (and more) are available if you run R within ESS/(X)Emacs. Andy From: John McHenry Hi all, Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line editing and history editing on the command line? In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type p and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the recently entered commands beginning with p. This is a very useful feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. Please correct me if I'm wrong; currently I use history(Inf) in R, search for what I want and cut and paste if I find what I'm looking for. Also in MATLAB, tab completion is available for directory listings and also for function name completion. Again, I'm unaware of how to do this in R. The added MATLAB functionality makes finding files easy on the command line and it also saves the fingers on long function names. Thanks, Jack. - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Re: [R] Command-line editing history
And JGR has that features as well. 2006/3/3, Liaw, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unless I'm mistaken, all those features (and more) are available if you run R within ESS/(X)Emacs. Andy From: John McHenry Hi all, Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line editing and history editing on the command line? In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type p and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the recently entered commands beginning with p. This is a very useful feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. Please correct me if I'm wrong; currently I use history(Inf) in R, search for what I want and cut and paste if I find what I'm looking for. Also in MATLAB, tab completion is available for directory listings and also for function name completion. Again, I'm unaware of how to do this in R. The added MATLAB functionality makes finding files easy on the command line and it also saves the fingers on long function names. Thanks, Jack. - [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- 黄荣贵 Deparment of Sociology Fudan University __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
