Hi Ross,
On 05 Mar 2014, at 11:26, Ross Ahmed rossahmed@googlemail.com wrote:
Let's say I have R open and i’m editing a .R filewith TextMate. In my .R file I have a line of code like this:
lm(mpg ~ drat, mtcars)
Is it possible to set up a keyboard shortcut, which when pressed whilst an R object was selected, would send that object to the R console inside a function.
this is rather simple since you can communicate with R via AppleScript.
Create a new tmCommand with: ---------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env bash [[ -f "${TM_SUPPORT_PATH}/lib/bash_init.sh" ]] && . "${TM_SUPPORT_PATH}/lib/bash_init.sh"
Rcmd="length($TM_SELECTED_TEXT)"
osascript <<-APPLESCRIPT tell application "System Events" tell application "R" to cmd "${Rcmd//"/"}" end tell APPLESCRIPT ----------------------------------------
Input: Selection; format: Text Output: Discard Key Equivalent: "whatever you like"
The 4th line of code is the interesting part:
- $TM_SELECTED_TEXT holds the content of the current selection - Rcmd is the variable whose content will send to R.app - thus in that example it will send "length({content of selection})"
Hope it helps. Cheers, Hans