I agree, this is a good idea and would be very helpful in interactive contexts.
I have a draft patch implementing this feature here: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/pull/122 (Append “.patch” to the URL to get a raw patch.) Regards, Tomasz > On Mar 31, 2023, at 2:11 PM, Karolis K <karolis.koncevic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > In the current R-devel @ is S3 generic, so we can do things like - for > example - use it to extract matrix rows by name: > > .S3method("@", "mm", function(object, name) object[name,]) > m <- structure(matrix(rnorm(20), ncol=2), dimnames=list(paste0("row", > 1:10), paste("col", 1:2)), class="mm") > > m@row1 > > However, seems like currently it does not support autocompletion. > > Wouldn’t it make sense to add a method like .EtaNames() which would provide > tab autocompletions for x@<tab> in the same way current .DollarNames() does > for x$<tab>? > > Regards, > Karolis K. > ______________________________________________ > 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
