-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 22/03/13 13:30, Terry Therneau wrote: > The thread is strange to me as well, since completion is logically impossible > for my Sweave > files. - an emacs buffer is open working on an .Rnw file - there is no copy > of R running > anywhere on the machine - the code chunk in the .Rnw file refers to a R data > object saved > somewhere else Of course it cannot do "name completion" on a bit of code I'm > writing, lacking > omniscient powers. Emacs is good but not that good :-) > > The ESS manual section 12.1 states that for .R files it has "completion of > object names and > file names". I'm puzzled by exactly what this means, since it is logically > impossible (without > a running R session) to do this in general. Linking an .Rnw file to an > inferior R process > doesn't make sense to me. > > However, I think it's time to move this sub-thread off of R-devel. Respond > to me privately > about the answer or the proper list for this discussion.
If anybody wants to continue this ESS discussion: The proper list is the ESS mailing list: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help See you there, Rainer > > Terry T > > On 03/22/2013 06:00 AM, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote: >> This thread is strange for me to read as I've been getting completion of >> object names, >> function arguments names, and whatnot in ESS buffers for as long as I can >> have been using it. >> And I'm only on ESS 12.09. >> >> Perhaps you need to set `ess-use-R-completion` to non-nil. Or check the >> value of >> `completion-at-point-functions`. Mine is '(ess-roxy-tag-completion >> ess-filename-completion >> ess-object-completion t) >> >> Peter > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing > list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRTF8CAAoJENvXNx4PUvmCrSQH/inP6c5JT+YEJYDEGOkLQOiA 8GLGzgCdO+iekF1EMrKVvcPjim14gRu+y2HcryxMO44w1gIutcY2wpq6m7OYvCXI BV40TjKut6nLzopx0IWVr0vX+mA5IybKiziup+lSS86gb5E8QNRVlBFIw3Xp2TXP rMlS6kkNiQR6y94lwdnUJTy/FerqsV9sQNnNUNipTPt9coL4qISyl1TDoDImrtgM kCG/kSoUnazzldH39qHgfEJb4rhgCLISNFKbPmtCuCbKh+iF0bHJF4rlEXrSkiRu GsmfV1Ln3hWmYijtOygHUlmeSiiVTZVVtfXA5oXrW/GXVvDCYEkSTDuu3JbIj7o= =DJwz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel