[R-SIG-Mac] tab completion on R terminal (Mac)

[Ping-Hsun Hsieh]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the reply.
I did complie my own version of R in my home dir of the Mac since I do not have the root privilege to install anything involved writing actions on /etc/ , /bin/, or /lib/.

I followed the instruction of the following two web-pages
http://r.research.att.com/building.html and
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html  bullet 2.1.3

Here is my configuration and make:

## configure
$./configure SHELL='/bin/bash' \
r_arch=x86_64 \
CC="gcc -arch x86_64 -std=gnu99" \
CXX="g++ -arch x86_64" \
OBJC="gcc -arch x86_64" \
F77="gfortran -arch x86_64" \
FC="gfortran -arch x86_64" \
--prefix=$HOME \
--with-system-zlib \
--with-blas='-framework vecLib' --with-lapack

## make
$make -j4 && \
make check && \
make CPPFLAGS=-DNEED_EXTERN_PC

## install
$make install

I thought I have complied/configured readline. Does anything look not right above?
By the way, the Mac's OS is Leopard.
And I forgot to mention that when I type the tab in R console only,
it does come up "./" followed by the sub-directories under the current directory.

Thanks,
PingHsun



-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org] 
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:07 PM
To: Ping-Hsun Hsieh
Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tab completion on R terminal (Mac)


On Apr 3, 2009, at 16:40 , Ping-Hsun Hsieh wrote:

> Bear R-experts,
>
> Sorry if my question is too trivial.
>
> I am using ssh to access and run R on a 64-bit Mac machines from my  
> windows machine.
> But I find that the tab-completion does not work when I tried.
>

I suspect that you have compiled your own version of R and you did not  
use readline. I would suggest using the official Leopard binary from
http://r.research.att.com/
which uses readline and supports code completion.

Cheers,
Simon


> For example, on my windows machine, I can type tab to get a full  
> name of a specific object.
>
>> ls()
> [1]	data1		func1		data3
>
>> fun ##<tab>
>> func1	##it completes the name of the object automatically
>
> It does not work on the Mac machine when I use R as a terminal tool.
>
> I checked the following R website, do not have any clue though.
> 5.5 What does TAB completion do?
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#What-does-TAB-completion-do_003f
>
>
> Any suggestion and comment are welcome and appreciated!
>
> Best Regards,
> PingHsun
>
>
> My rc.status()
>
> $linebuffer
> [1] ""
>
> $options
> $options$package.suffix
> [1] "::"
>
> $options$funarg.suffix
> [1] "="
>
> $options$function.suffix
> [1] "("
>
>
> $end
> [1] 1
>
> $settings
> $settings$ops
> [1] TRUE
>
> $settings$ns
> [1] TRUE
>
> $settings$args
> [1] TRUE
>
> $settings$func
> [1] FALSE
>
> $settings$ipck
> [1] FALSE
>
> $settings$S3
> [1] TRUE
>
> $settings$data
> [1] TRUE
>
> $settings$help
> [1] TRUE
>
> $settings$argdb
> [1] TRUE
>
> $settings$files
> [1] FALSE
> #########################
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] splines   tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils      
> datasets
> [8] methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] oligo_1.6.0          oligoClasses_1.4.0   affxparser_1.14.2
> [4] AnnotationDbi_1.4.3  preprocessCore_1.4.0 RSQLite_0.7-1
> [7] DBI_0.2-4            Biobase_2.2.2
>
>
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