tab completion on R terminal (Mac)
Hi Simon, Thanks for the reply. I did complie my own version of R in my home dir of the Mac since I do not have the root privilege to install anything involved writing actions on /etc/ , /bin/, or /lib/. I followed the instruction of the following two web-pages http://r.research.att.com/building.html and http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html bullet 2.1.3 Here is my configuration and make: ## configure $./configure SHELL='/bin/bash' \ r_arch=x86_64 \ CC="gcc -arch x86_64 -std=gnu99" \ CXX="g++ -arch x86_64" \ OBJC="gcc -arch x86_64" \ F77="gfortran -arch x86_64" \ FC="gfortran -arch x86_64" \ --prefix=$HOME \ --with-system-zlib \ --with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack ## make $make -j4 && \ make check && \ make CPPFLAGS=-DNEED_EXTERN_PC ## install $make install I thought I have complied/configured readline. Does anything look not right above? By the way, the Mac's OS is Leopard. And I forgot to mention that when I type the tab in R console only, it does come up "./" followed by the sub-directories under the current directory. Thanks, PingHsun -----Original Message----- From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:07 PM To: Ping-Hsun Hsieh Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tab completion on R terminal (Mac)
On Apr 3, 2009, at 16:40 , Ping-Hsun Hsieh wrote:
Bear R-experts, Sorry if my question is too trivial. I am using ssh to access and run R on a 64-bit Mac machines from my windows machine. But I find that the tab-completion does not work when I tried.
I suspect that you have compiled your own version of R and you did not use readline. I would suggest using the official Leopard binary from http://r.research.att.com/ which uses readline and supports code completion. Cheers, Simon
For example, on my windows machine, I can type tab to get a full name of a specific object.
ls()
[1] data1 func1 data3
fun ##<tab> func1 ##it completes the name of the object automatically
It does not work on the Mac machine when I use R as a terminal tool. I checked the following R website, do not have any clue though. 5.5 What does TAB completion do? http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#What-does-TAB-completion-do_003f Any suggestion and comment are welcome and appreciated! Best Regards, PingHsun My rc.status() $linebuffer [1] "" $options $options$package.suffix [1] "::" $options$funarg.suffix [1] "=" $options$function.suffix [1] "(" $end [1] 1 $settings $settings$ops [1] TRUE $settings$ns [1] TRUE $settings$args [1] TRUE $settings$func [1] FALSE $settings$ipck [1] FALSE $settings$S3 [1] TRUE $settings$data [1] TRUE $settings$help [1] TRUE $settings$argdb [1] TRUE $settings$files [1] FALSE #########################
sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 locale: C attached base packages: [1] splines tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [8] methods base other attached packages: [1] oligo_1.6.0 oligoClasses_1.4.0 affxparser_1.14.2 [4] AnnotationDbi_1.4.3 preprocessCore_1.4.0 RSQLite_0.7-1 [7] DBI_0.2-4 Biobase_2.2.2
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