[R] Emacs function argument hints

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Tim,
This works out of the box for me, with ESS 5.11 and Emacs 23.1

-Ista

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Tim Elwell-Sutton <tesutton at hku.hk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've recently started using Emacs as my text editor for writing R script.
>
> I am looking for a feature which I have seen on the standard R text editor
> for Mac OS. In the Mac OS editor when you start typing a function, the
> possible arguments for that function appear at the bottom of the window.
> E.g. if you type "table( "  before you finish typing you can see at the
> bottom of the window:
>
>
>
> table(..., exclude = if (useNA == "no") c(NA, NaN), useNA = c("no",
>    "ifany", "always"), dnn = list.names(...), deparse.level = 1)
>
>
>
> I think this feature may be called "function argument hints" but I'm not
> sure and searching the archive with that term has not produced anything
> useful.
>
> Is this feature available in Emacs or any other windows text editor for R?
>
>
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> (Using Windows XP, R 2.11.1, GNU Emacs 23.2.1)
>
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Ista Zahn
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