How do I use tab completion in Rstudio

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  •  06-03-2022
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Question

I've been using Rstudio for a few weeks now, and the tab completion has worked inconsistently for me. For example:

my_variable = 10
my_va

Those are the only two lines in my R-script. When I press tab to use completion, a small message appears next to the text bar saying "(No matches)", when I believe it should find the matching variable called "my_variable" in the line above.

Does anyone know how to use tab completion in Rstudio?

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Solution

RStudio looks at the workspace and the packages loaded to try to do the tab-completion. If you haven't run the first line then RStudio won't recognize that you want to complete to "my_variable".

If you run your first line then RStudio will be able to tell that you have a variable called my_variable and will offer to complete it to that.

You can read a little bit more in the RStudio documentation.

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