Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > Announcement: > > (For those every-once-in-a-while occasions when you run R from a > terminal instead of Emacs, and then wish something would happen when > you hit TAB...) > > Last week, I started looking at the GNU Readline documentation to see > if I could figure out how to use it for command completion within R. > It turned out to be easier than I had expected, and I now have a beta > version of the 'rcompletion' package available at > > http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/R/rcompletion_0.0-6.tar.gz > >>From the help page: > > Description: > > This package provides pseudo-intelligent TAB completion for a > readline enabled instance of R when it is run from a terminal (or > more specifically, an interface which uses readline to accept user > input). It has no effect on the various GUI interfaces to R, > including ESS and the standard Windows interface. > > For more details, install and load the package, then type > > package?rcompletion > > at the R prompt. Testing and feedback would be appreciated. Feature > requests and patches are also welcome, of course. > > > Questions: > > There are a couple of things about which I would like some advice: > > (1) The package currently contains a very rudimentary configure script > which stops installation when readline is not found. I'm not sure if > this is portable enough. .../src/unix/sys-std.c has more sophisticated > conditional directives, but I don't know enough about this sort of > thing to interpret those. Any thoughts or suggestions on this would be > appreciated. > > (2) What's the recommended procedure to distribute this, given that > (a) it's not relevant on Windows (i.e. won't do anything even if it > could be installed) and (b) may or may not be relevant on Macs, some > of which apparently have a fake readline that doesn't support > completion?
Distribution can happen regularly as a CRAN package. I will put it on my exclude list in order not to try building Windows binaries in that case. Uwe > -Deepayan > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
