On May 2, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Peter Cowan wrote:
You can fake it by doing 'R --save --restore --slave' which saves a .Rdata file with stored functions and variables and restores whatever one it can find. There of course can be side effects if a workspace exists from a previous use.
The side effects here would really be very undesirable, I think. Plus, this does not solve my main problem, of accessing the file real- time, as it is being written, from within Ruby.
printf "?$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" | R --slave
Or when you said instant, did you intend mouse hovering to bring up the tooltip?
No, that's what I meant. Of course, TM_SELECTED_TEXT might not be the right thing, even if it falls back to "word", since R allows commands like help.start which are not "words" in TextMate. So, the command should scan the current line for the "R command under the cursor". And ideally there would be two commands, one bound to ctrl-/ and doing exactly the tooltip thing, and another, perhaps bound to ctrl- shift-/, that would open up the online help on the word or something like that.
Peter
Haris