> ?somecharacters
No documentation for 'somecharacters' in specified packages and libraries:
you could try 'help.search("somecharacters")'
>
I'm looking for some advice. I'd like to hack my source code
in such a way that the empty prompt line above is "pre-filled"
with the suggested command. In effect, this would make it
unnecessary to copy-paste (or type)
help.search("somecharacters")
If I did not want to execute the suggested command, I would
Ctrl-c the pre-filled line.
Alternatively, the hack could implement a query, as in:
> ?somecharacters
No documentation for 'somecharacters' in specified packages and libraries:
you could try:
0 - help.search("somecharacters")
1 - RSiteSearch("somecharacters")
2 - apropos(somecharacters)
3 - etc .....
<enter> - no action
.... in which case, typing 0, 1, 2, 3, ... and <enter> would issue
the corresponding command, or would pre-fill a command line
with the corresponding command (which could then be edited).
Alternatively, the hack could add the recommended commands to
the command history, in which case I could use the up/down
arrows to navigate to them.
I suppose it might be the case that a similar feature is already
part of R, and that I am just not aware of it. As a newbie, I spend
most of my time searching/reading documentation.
Any comments regarding the possible alternatives that I've
mentioned, or offers of your own alternatives, would be
appreciated, as would be suggestions or mini-outlines for
implementing the hack.
TIA,
Mike
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