Duncan, Thank you for the "TAB for command suggestion" tip! Tal
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > On 02/07/2009 5:10 AM, Warren Young wrote: > >> Michael wrote: >> >>> I saw my friend has a R Console window which has automatic syntax >>> reminder when he types in the first a few letters of R command. And >>> he's using R under MAC. Is that a MAC thing, or I could do the same on >>> my PC Windows? >>> >> >> Yes, the Mac GUI for R is a lot nicer than the Windows version. I guess >> it's just a matter of what interested the people who wrote each, as there's >> no technical reason it has to be that way. Maybe someone will port some of >> the Mac GUI's features over to the Windows version. >> > > The Windows GUI was written before the Mac GUI, and was written using a > fairly strange toolkit, which are two reasons the Mac looks prettier. But > the Windows GUI has a few advantages over the Mac: > > You can copy from the console, prompts and all, and paste just the > commands, to re-execute a sequence of commands. > > The cursor won't move to places where input isn't allowed, so the up- and > down-arrow keys operate more consistently. > > The history() command is more sensible by default. > > Installing packages defaults to installing dependencies, and the menu > layout for doing a local install makes more sense to me. > > > The syntax hints in the Mac GUI would be nice, as would a number of other > features there. (The Windows GUI does have syntax completion using TAB, but > not the hints.) But the Windows GUI is not so bad. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili Phone number: 972-50-3373767 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: http://www.r-statistics.com/ http://www.talgalili.com http://www.biostatistics.co.il [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
