Duncan,
Thank you for the "TAB for command suggestion" tip!

Tal




On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:

> On 02/07/2009 5:10 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>
>> Michael wrote:
>>
>>> I saw my friend has a R Console window which has automatic syntax
>>> reminder when he types in the first a few letters of R command. And
>>> he's using R under MAC. Is that a MAC thing, or I could do the same on
>>> my PC Windows?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, the Mac GUI for R is a lot nicer than the Windows version.  I guess
>> it's just a matter of what interested the people who wrote each, as there's
>> no technical reason it has to be that way.  Maybe someone will port some of
>> the Mac GUI's features over to the Windows version.
>>
>
> The Windows GUI was written before the Mac GUI, and was written using a
> fairly strange toolkit, which are two reasons the Mac looks prettier. But
> the Windows GUI has a few advantages over the Mac:
>
>  You can copy from the console, prompts and all, and paste just the
> commands, to re-execute a sequence of commands.
>
>  The cursor won't move to places where input isn't allowed, so the up- and
> down-arrow keys operate more consistently.
>
>  The history() command is more sensible by default.
>
>  Installing packages defaults to installing dependencies, and the menu
> layout for doing a local install makes more sense to me.
>
>
> The syntax hints in the Mac GUI would be nice, as would a number of other
> features there.  (The Windows GUI does have syntax completion using TAB, but
> not the hints.)  But the Windows GUI is not so bad.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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