On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 2 May 2011 at 11:32, Sharpie wrote: > | Hello, I was just tweaking the R build for the Homebrew package manager and > I > | thought it would be nice to enable bash completion. I noticed that > | Debian-based systems install `/etc/bash_completion.d/R` but could not find a > | source for this file in the `etc` folder of the R source. > > Right. This started off via a suggestion by Deepayan and a quick install via > a local-to-Debian-package-sources file, and has never moved away from that. > > I am CCing Deepayan now; it may indeed be useful to commit this in the R svn > and to add it to the tarball as the feature is very, very useful if you > deplay bash completion.
I vaguely remember a discussion on r-core where the consensus was that this was too shell-specific to belong in the R sources. It has been publicly available (for a long time) at http://code.google.com/p/rcompletion/source/browse/trunk/bash_completion/R (could use a little work now). -Deepayan > > Dirk > > -- > Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50. > -- #11 at http://www.gaussfacts.com > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
