[R] Disabling the auto-complete feature in named list indexing

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Thu Oct 23 01:23:19 CEST 2008


Pradheep K E wrote:
> Is there any way to disable the auto-complete feature when we index a named
> list?
> E.g: a <- list ('longname'=1, 'anothername'=2)
> a$l will return 1 and a$a will return 2
> the '[[' operator behaves in the same way, the '[' operator does not do
> autocomplete.
> 
> Is there any way to disable autocomplete for all the operators?

No. Too many "surprises" if you do that (notice that it would affect 
everybody elses code along with yours). There's an exact= argument to 
[[, though (see ?"[[").

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