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

Tue Apr 7 22:20:01 CEST 2009

On Apr 7, 2009, at 15:35 , Ping-Hsun Hsieh wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> I tried both installing the readline in my home dir and asking my  
> system admin to install it for me, but none of these works out.

Can you, please, be more precise what you mean by "works out"?

Cheers,
Simon

> We downloaded the readline-6.0 from GUN, and used the configure/make  
> install described in http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html
> Sec. 2.1.3
>
> The configure seems running well, no error messages at least, but  
> the following error messages popped up when we were trying to  
> install it.
>

Those are benign - readline is just trying to make a backup of the old  
installation just in case there is one.

>
>
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> ( cd examples ; make  DESTDIR= install )
> /bin/sh ../support/mkdirs /usr/local/share/readline
> mkdir /usr/local/share/readline
> mv /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a /usr/local/lib/libreadline.old
> mv: rename /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a to /usr/local/lib/ 
> libreadline.old: No such file or directory
> make: [install-static] Error 1 (ignored)
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libreadline.a /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a
> test -n "ranlib" && ranlib /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a
> ranlib: empty library: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a (no table of  
> contents added)
> mv /usr/local/lib/libhistory.a /usr/local/lib/libhistory.old
> mv: rename /usr/local/lib/libhistory.a to /usr/local/lib/ 
> libhistory.old: No such file or directory
> make: [install-static] Error 1 (ignored)
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libhistory.a /usr/local/lib/libhistory.a
> test -n "ranlib" && ranlib /usr/local/lib/libhistory.a
> ranlib: empty library: /usr/local/lib/libhistory.a (no table of  
> contents added)
> ( cd shlib ; make  DESTDIR= install )
> /bin/sh ../support/mkdirs /usr/local/lib
> /bin/sh ../support/shlib-install -O darwin9.6.0 -d /usr/local/lib - 
> b /usr/local/bin -i "/usr/bin/install -c -m 644" libhistory.6.0.dylib
> /bin/sh ../support/shlib-install -O darwin9.6.0 -d /usr/local/lib - 
> b /usr/local/bin -i "/usr/bin/install -c -m 644" libreadline.6.0.dylib
> install: you may need to run ldconfig
>
>
>
> It looks like the installation was trying to mv/change names of  
> files, but it failed due to no such file or directory. Though I am  
> not sure what these files are.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> PingHsun
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-sig-mac-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> ] On Behalf Of Ping-Hsun Hsieh
> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 12:54 AM
> To: Simon Urbanek
> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] tab completion on R terminal (Mac)
>
> Thanks, Simon.
>
> I misunderstood the configuration.
> Appreciate your comments and helps!
>
> PingHsun
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urbanek at r-project.org]
> Sent: 2009/4/3 [¬P´Á¤ ] ¤U¤È 06:30
> 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 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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