On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Renaud Gaujoux
<ren...@mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote:
"BTW: an ever more intuitive solution (IMHO) would be to auto-
complete
package names in library( ... Deepayan?;) That is non-intrusive
and in line
with the general use of R." (Simon)
This is indeed a long wanted feature and to my surprise it actually
already
exists!!! (seems that Deepayan did not tell anybody about it ;) )
The help page ?completion in the utils package explains how to
enable it:
utils::rc.settings(ipck=TRUE)
It simply worked on my Ubuntu box -- and directly went in
my .Rprofile :)
Hope this helps.
Also in terms of what exists now, on Windows the Packages > Load
Package menu on Rgui provides a gui interface to library() from which
one chooses the package from a list so one can't ask for one that does
not exist.
On a Mac with R.app the same facility exists which I how I check to
see if a package is available in one of four forms (mac-binary, mac-
source, Bioc-binary, Bioc-source).
--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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