Peng Yu wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org> wrote: >> Peng Yu wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Tobias Verbeke >>> <tobias.verb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Peng Yu wrote: >>>> >>>>> I want to compile R with command completion. But I don't find such an >>>>> option in configure. Can somebody let me know how to enable command >>>>> completion in an R session? >>>> AFAIK this is not an option you set when compiling. >>>> Did you try to type a letter (say 'l') and press the >>>> TAB key ? >>>> >>>> If you are not satisfied, you might want to use >>>> other R editors or development environments (such >>>> as StatET for Eclipse or ESS) which implement >>>> command completion in their idiosyncratic ways. >>> I have an older version of R where I can do command completion (after >>> typing TAB, it will list variables that are starting with the already >>> typed letter. I compiled a newer version R with the default compile >>> options, which does not do command completion. >>> >>> Since the old version can do completion, I believe that there must be >>> a way to configure the new version also do so. Can somebody share your >>> insights with me? Thank you! >> On linux this facility is provided by the readline system library; this >> should be configured to be true by default and when available; look at >> the end of the configure output, and check that you have the readline >> headers installed. > > I get the following configure output that is related to readline. Why > 'rl_completion_matches' doesn't exist? What should I do with it? > > checking readline/history.h usability... yes > checking readline/history.h presence... yes > checking for readline/history.h... yes > checking readline/readline.h usability... yes > checking readline/readline.h presence... yes > checking for readline/readline.h... yes > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no > checking for main in -lncurses... yes > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... yes > checking for history_truncate_file... yes > checking whether rl_completion_matches exists and is declared... no
I don't know. Ask on the R-devel mailing list. Include the output of R's sessionInfo(), your operating system version, and the version of readline (e.g., from /usr/include/readline/readline.h) Martin > > > checking readline/history.h usability... yes > checking readline/history.h presence... yes > checking for readline/history.h... yes > checking readline/readline.h usability... yes > checking readline/readline.h presence... yes > checking for readline/readline.h... yes > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no > checking for main in -lncurses... yes > checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... yes > checking for history_truncate_file... yes > checking whether rl_completion_matches exists and is declared... no > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. -- Martin Morgan Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 Phone: (206) 667-2793 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
