Here is the post where Prof Ripley is reffering to: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/09/26668.html
Bart losemind wrote: > > > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >> A patch to do this was posted on 2007-09-29 by Glenn Davis. Some people >> not addicted to Matlab find the behaviour very inconvenient and prefer >> the >> getline/readline behaviour (triggered by ^R/^S) of Rterm and R on Unixen. >> >> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, losemind wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> In R GUI window, if you use "up" and "down" key, you will be able to >>> recall >>> the previous and next command that has been used and stored in the >>> command >>> history cache. >>> >>> But there is one inconvenience: >> >> Or an inconvenience of Matlab not shared by R, depending on your >> preferences. >> >>> In Matlab, you can type the first a few characters of the command that >>> you >>> previously used, >>> >>> and then press “up" key, you will be able to get to that previous >>> command >>> very fast, >>> >>> no matter how long ago it has been used... >>> >>> In R GUI, there is no such functionality. >>> >>> Any thoughts on making R work my productivity? >>> >>> ---------------------- >>> >>> Also where do I find good debugger for R? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/R-command-history----can-it-be-like-Matlab%27s--tp18719530p18719530.html >>> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >> >> -- >> 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, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > > > > Hi, > > I don't find Glenn Davis's patch... where is it? > > I like that Matlab feature. And I am using R GUI on windows... > > Please help me! > > Please also give me pointers to good R debuggers? > > Thanks! > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/R-command-history----can-it-be-like-Matlab%27s--tp18719530p18728916.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
