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Feature request: enable autocomplete via tabbing
Hi, I love here() and use it a lot. I just thought that it would be super cool to be able to get autocomplete/suggestions for file paths as it works outside of here().
Or is there a trick how that's already possible?
Thanks :)
Can we please have this implemented? I'd like to use {here}
, but currently the here()
function is nearly useless to me because I have a lot of nested folders and I don't memorize the long paths in order to specify where a file or folder is by manually typing in each item in the path from the here()
root.
I was about to make this request myself. I huge downside of file.path
and here
is the lack of tab completion.
Thanks for the nudge.
In RStudio, you could type
here("file<tab>
and it would autocomplete the file with its full path relative to the RStudio project (which is frequently also the project root):
here("my/local/file.txt"
This is a perfectly valid input for here()
. Would that help? Do we need to document this better?
I am considering a use case that goes beyond that, and may not be something that is a goal for {here}
. Highly structured projects can lead to tall directory trees:
(base) balter@expiyes:~$ tree rnaseq_proj/
rnaseq_proj/
├── align
│ ├── logs
│ ├── reports
│ ├── results
│ └── src
│ ├── alignment_diagnostics.Rmd
│ └── run_bwa.Rmd
├── config.R
├── data
│ └── raw
│ └── test.fastq
├── setup
│ ├── logs
│ ├── reports
│ ├── results
│ └── src
│ └── run_fastqc.Rmd
└── trim
├── logs
├── reports
├── results
└── src
├── trim_diagnostics.Rmd
└── trim_sequences.Rmd
So, I frequently like to create variables for file paths, e.g.:
raw_data_dir = here("data/raw")
Or, maybe I have another reason to have a folder name in a variable.
test_type = "raw"
test_fastq_file = here("data", test_type, "test.fastq")
I think it would be awesome if here
and (file.path
) would use intellisense so that I could do
data_dir = here("data")
test_fastq_file = here(data_dir, test_type, <tab>......