[ESS] showing function syntax

[Jannis]

Thanks for your suggestions. I think the feature Stephen writes about is 
the one I am looking for. However I did not manage to activate it. This 
may be due to me beeing rather new to emacs. I added:

(require 'ess-eldoc)

to my .emacs file, opened an *.R file and started R (M-x R). Where are the infos form the feature now meant to appear? 
Do I have to install/copy some files for the ess-eldoc tool somewhere?



Thanks a lot!
Jannis




Stephen Eglen schrieb:
> ess-eldoc might help you; see my earlier msg:
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2010-June/006176.html
>
> and the offer of writing documentation still applies!
>
> Stephen
> Jannis <bt_jannis at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> Dear list,
>>
>>
>> I vaguely remeber that ESS has the functionality to show the syntax of
>> a R function (i.e. all the options with their defaults in the
>> parantheses (e.g. for example plot(x,y,xlim,......)) in some buffer
>> while typing the name of that function.
>>
>> Is this correct? If yes, do I have to activate this feature? I
>> recently updated emacs and ESS and no I do not have this feature
>> anymore. And I am quite sure that it worked before....Or do I mistake
>> this with rkward?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Jannis
>>
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