[R] objectname completion

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Ingo Roeder <ingo.roeder at imise.uni-leipzig.de> writes:

> Dear R users,
> 
> is there any possibility to get an object-name completion within the R
> command line (UNIX-version of R). As I got to know from the FAQ that
> this is possible from within Emacs (ESS), but without using Emacs?

A long-standing volunteers-welcome issue. The hooks in the readline
library are there (at least if you don't mind killing filename
completion), and getting the list of objects is essentially a matter
of cloning what ESS does.

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