[R] How to compile R with command completion?

[Martin Morgan]

Peng Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Tobias Verbeke
> <tobias.verbeke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Peng Yu wrote:
>>
>>> I want to compile R with command completion. But I don't find such an
>>> option in configure. Can somebody let me know how to enable command
>>> completion in an R session?
>> AFAIK this is not an option you set when compiling.
>> Did you try to type a letter (say 'l') and press the
>> TAB key ?
>>
>> If you are not satisfied, you might want to use
>> other R editors or development environments (such
>> as StatET for Eclipse or ESS) which implement
>> command completion in their idiosyncratic ways.
> 
> I have an older version of R where I can do command completion (after
> typing TAB, it will list variables that are starting with the already
> typed letter. I compiled a newer version R with the default compile
> options, which does not do command completion.
> 
> Since the old version can do completion, I believe that there must be
> a way to configure the new version also do so. Can somebody share your
> insights with me? Thank you!

On linux this facility is provided by the readline system library; this
should be configured to be true by default and when available; look at
the end of the configure output, and check that you have the readline
headers installed.

Martin

> 
> Regards,
> Peng
> 
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