[R] completion doesn't work anymore

[Peter Dalgaard]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Ralf Goertz wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> after updating to 2.7.0, command line completion doesn't work anymore. I
>> understand that the package rcompgen is now part of utils. I hadn't used
>> rcompgen before but completion worked without it (I double checked it
>> using an 2.6.2 version on another machine). Now, it doesn't work, even
>> after switching on all option via "rc.settings". I updated R using the
>> opensuse 10.3 repository. 
>>
>> For instance I have a data frame d. When I enter
>>
>> d$<Tab><Tab>
>>
>> I see a list of files in the current directory instead of the names in
>> the data frame.
>>
>> What can I do to turn it back on?
>>   
>>     
> Pester the SUSE maintainer about it (cc'ed). Same thing happened with
> 2.6.0, so he'll know what to do...
>
>     -pd
>
>   
The 10.2 version that I just installed does seem to work though:
viggo:~/>R

R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
...
> air
airmiles    airquality
> airquality$
airquality$Day      airquality$Ozone    airquality$Temp
airquality$Month    airquality$Solar.R  airquality$Wind
>
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n


>> rg at server:~> R --version
>> R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
>> Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>>
>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
>> GNU General Public License version 2.
>> For more information about these matters see
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
>>
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