createSyntaxFile {svIDE}

Create a syntax definition or a calltip file for R language

Description

A .svl syntax file describes the syntax of the language for SciViews GUIs. It is used mainly for syntax coloring of text in editors. The calltip file (by default, Rcalltips.txt) is a database with formal calls of R functions, to be used by code editors to display function calltips.

Usage

createSyntaxFile(svlfile = "R.svl", pos = 2:length(search()))
createCallTipFile(file = "Rcalltips.txt", pos = 2:length(search()),
    field.sep = "=", only.args = FALSE, return.location = FALSE)

Arguments

svlfile

the name or location of the .svl file you want to create.

file

the name or location of the calltip file you want to create.

pos

a vector of integers indicating which positions in the search path should be recorded in the file.

field.sep

the field separator to use between the function name and its calltip in the file.

only.args

do we record the full calltip (myfun(arg1, arg2 = TRUE, ...)), or only the function arguments (arg1, arg2, ...).

return.location

when TRUE, the package where this function is located in returned between square brackets at the end of the line.

Value

These functions return nothing. They are invoked for their side effects of creating a file.

Note

SciViews-R uses a file named 'R.svl' and located in <SciViewsDir>/bin/languages. This function generates such a file. Do resist to the temptation to generate a very long list of keywords by loading many packages. SciViews cannot handle a list longer that 32k, that is roughly, 2000 - 2500 keywords.

createCallTipFile() sometimes issues warnings because it cannot get arguments from some keywords. You can ignore these warnings.

Author(s)

Philippe Grosjean <[e-mail]>

See Also

getFunctions, getKeywords

Examples

## Not run: 
## Create a syntax highlighting file for all currently loaded R packages
createSyntaxFile("Rtemp.svl")
## Show and delete it
file.show("Rtemp.svl", delete.file = TRUE)

## Create a calltips file for all currently loaded R packages
createCallTipFile("Rtemp.ctip", return.location = TRUE)
## Show and delete it
file.show("Rtemp.ctip", delete.file = TRUE)

## You can also customize the calltip file and select the package
## Here we include only functions from base package (the last item
## in the search path)
createCallTipFile("Rtemp2.ctip", pos = length(search()),
    field.sep = ";", only.args = TRUE)
## Show and delete it
file.show("Rtemp2.ctip", delete.file = TRUE)

## End(Not run)