[R] breaking command in command line in R for Mac Aqua

[Peter Dalgaard]

Adaikalavan Ramasamy <ramasamy at cancer.org.uk> writes:

> Why not use an editor ? 
> 
> I would highly recommend Emacs in combination with Emacs Speaks
> Statistics (ESS). Section 2.1 of [1] might help with the installation.
> 
> Otherwise you can try JGR [2] or others [3]. There is a R special
> interest group for MAC users [4] that you can try.
> 
> [1] http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/ess_2.html
> [2] http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/JGR/index.shtml
> [3] http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/projects/Editors.html
> [4] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
> 
> Regards, Adai

Neither of those prevent you from sending incomplete lines do they?

In a tight spot, you can alway just generate a syntax error. The thing
is that you will typically have forgotten how to do that reliably.
Entering 

 $$ 

or 

 a b

is a good guess. The main exception is that you could be in the middle
of a text string, in which case you need a terminating quote first.

        -p

> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:34 -0700, Michael Sohn wrote:
> > I'm using R for Mac Aqua version 2.1.1
> > 
> > If at the command line, I type:
> > ls(
> > and then a return, the command line prompt changes to
> > a plus sign indicating that the command has not been
> > completed.  How do I break, or kill, the partial
> > command?  Sometimes, I type a long command but miss a
> > bracket or parenthesis.  On a unix or linux version of
> > R, I can type ctrl-c.  On the Mac, ctrl-c,
> > command-(dot), and escape do not work.
> > 
> > Any solutions?
> > Mike


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