On 18/02/2015 5:06 PM, CasasPrat,Merce [Ontario] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to R (was using Matlab previously) > > Matlab has a very convenient utility that I haven't been able to find in R. > When working interactively, you can find a previous command that starts with > a certain letter by typing such a letter and then pressing the cursor up key. > In R I've seen that, despite the letter you type, when pressing the cursor up > key, it goes to the immediately previous command. > > So, do you know if there is any way in R to quickly search for previous > commands starting with a certain letter?
This depends on what front end you are using. In the Windows Rgui.exe, you get what you saw. In front-ends using readline, you can do it by hitting Ctrl-R first. (The Windows command-line interface, Rterm.exe, uses this, as do many others.) If you're using some other front-end, you'll need to read its documentation. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
