[RkWard-devel] Feature Request: auto completion

[Pierre Ecochard]

Hi Stefan,

> I hope I haven't overseen something but I didn't find auto completion
> neither in R itself (is there one?) nor in any GUI. 

I believe you could find some kind of autocompletion in ESS (Emacs Speaks 
Statistics, ess.r-project.org/). But granted, ESS is not really a GUI.
Sciviews also comes to mind: www.sciviews.org (not sure about sciviews: my box 
doesn't run windows).

> Is there a way to 
> add a auto-completion as seen in any Linux/Unix console Kate or
> Openoffice.org in the RKWard-console and RKWard-"script window"? 

Actually the kate-part we are currently using comes with hooks that make 
autocompletion possible 
(http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/apidocs/apidox-kde-4.0/kdelibs-apidocs/interfaces/ktexteditor/html/classKTextEditor_1_1CodeCompletionInterface.html).
You can see those in action in kdevelop, for instance. I think that for now it 
would be sufficient for RKWard.

> Therefore a "database" of frequently 
> used commands could be created by anyone (developers, users). I thinks
> this improves RKWard as GUI enormously and makes writing faster. Maybe
> you have more sophisticated methods in mind.

We could make R generate valid function names on the fly, based on the current 
workspace.

Autocompletion would probably not be too difficult to implement. And I agree 
it would be great. I'll take a look at it if I find some time.

br,
Pierre