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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 3, 2009, at 18:40, "Ping-Hsun Hsieh" <hsiehp at ohsu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>

The above CPPFLAGS are for readline, not for R. The compilation and  
installation of readline must be done *before* you configure R (see  
the FAQ).

Cheers,
Simon



> ## 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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