Many thanks, Duncan. I did not expect this to be an OS-specific issue, and figured it must be the new "default" and thus configurable from within the program, though indeed I am using MacOS.
--Adam On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 18/06/2007 12:30 AM, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Just upgraded to 2.5.0, and found that R now includes an rparen >> (right parentheses) or rbracket whenever I enter in an lparen. While I can >> see the use of this function, it doesn't mesh well with my personal style >> of >> using R (e.g., using the up arrow, adding an rparen, jumping to the >> beginning of the line, and then wrapping a summary, for instance). >> >> Some 10 minutes of google searching has failed to come up with a solution >> for turning this feature off--any suggestions from the list? > > You don't say your OS. If it's MacOSX (which I think is the only platform > with this feature), then see the R-sig-mac list, and in particular Simon > Urbanek's posting on May 23: > >> On May 23, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Roberto Osorio wrote: >> >>> > I can't find a preference to disable brace completion in the > console >>> in R 2.5.0 GUI 1.19. >> >> Unfortunately it didn't make it to the Preferences UI, so you have to >> paste this in Terminal: >> >> defaults write org.R-project.R auto.close.parens NO >> >> If you want to revert back to the default you can use: >> >> defaults delete org.R-project.R auto.close.parens >> >> > > Duncan Murdoch > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.