Terry Therneau <thern...@mayo.edu> writes: > On 03/21/2013 10:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: >>>> I would think that the ability to hit the Tab key to trigger name >>>> >> completion in your R GUI makes partial matching almost useless. The >>>> >> avantage of interactive completion in the GUI is that you immediately >>>> >> see the result of the partial matching. So you get the best of both >>>> >> worlds: no need to type long variable names in full, but no traps when >>>> >> a >>>> >> match is not what you would expect. >>>> >> >> Doesn't this suit your use case? >>> > Good point. This works well at the command line. However, not >>> > when interacting between emacs and R in the way I do. For >>> > reproducability I use and emacs file that is being corrected and >>> > massaged with chunks submitted to R; at the end I have a clean >>> > record of how the result was obtained. >>> > >> If this is really true (that ESS doesn't complete in R files) then >> this seems more like a bug (or wish?) report for ESS - other editors >> correctly support code completion in R documents - after all this is >> a feature of R, so they don't need to re-invent the wheel. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon > If you are running the R process inside ESS then there is matching -- > it is R. Doing this, keeping a log file, and then post-hoc cleaning > up all the cruft from that file is one way to keep documentation. But > since for my analyses the number of models/plots/etc that turn out to > be detours or dead ends on the way to a solution is larger than the > worthwhile part (typos alone are lots larger) I prefer to keep the > file(s) as their own buffers and submit bits of them to an R process > either by cut-paste to a separate window or ess-submit to an inferior > process. Emacs can't do name completion in that case. Nor could it > do so in an Sweave file, unless you were to keep a live R process in > hand to pre-test chunks as you wrote them. (One could reasonably > argue that when one gets the Sweave stage the names should be > expanded.)
Not true (any more?). ,---- | ESS[S] is the mode for editing S language files. This mode handles: | | [...] | - completion of object names and file names. `---- from http://ess.r-project.org/Manual/ess.html#ESS_0028S_0029_002d_002dEditing-files ESS can do completion of functions, object names, and also list/data.frame elements in *both* the inferior R buffer as well as in the .R file. [...] - Andreas ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
