garry.kremer@convergys.com
2002-Sep-04 21:30 UTC
[R] readline doesn't work even thou cled=TRUE
Can anyone offer suggestion about getting readline to work on Solaris? (v1.5.1) When I use the up arrow or ctrl-p to try to repeat the last command my session just beeps. It appears that the .Rhistory file that should appear in my startup directory is not being created. Thanks! The screen shot below shows cled=TRUE and no .Rhistory file created: $ /apps/R-1.5.1/bin/R R : Copyright 2002, The R Development Core Team Version 1.5.1 (2002-06-17) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details. R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type `contributors()' for more information. Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help. Type `q()' to quit R. [Previously saved workspace restored]> capabilities("cled")cledit TRUE> ls()character(0)> q()Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y $ ls -sal *hist* *hist*: No such file or directory -- "NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual or entity to which it is directed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply email or by telephone (collect), so that the sender's address records can be corrected." -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> "garry" == garry kremer <garry.kremer at convergys.com> >>>>> on Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:30:00 -0400 writes:garry> Can anyone offer suggestion about getting readline to work on Solaris? garry> (v1.5.1) It *does* work on many Solarises (including here), so probably this should mean ``suggestion about getting readline to work for __my__ Solaris setup'' Suggestions: 1) Could it be that someone installed a different version of readline than the one that was current when your R was built? {or your version of Solaris was upgraded ??} If this is the case, you should try to re-building R, starting with the <sourcedirectory>/configure command. 1b) You can return a favor to the R community by getting a snapshot of "R-devel", the "development version of R", (by rsync or FTP, see http://cran.r-project.org/sources.html) which will become the R 1.6.0 in early October. Build it and find if the problem is gone {and report to R-devel at ...}. 2) What kind of terminal did you try to use readline? Does it work in "xterm" at least? 3) Many of us almost never need the readline capabilities, since we work with ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) which has much more than readline could ever offer.. garry> When I use the up arrow or ctrl-p to try to repeat the last command garry> my session just beeps. garry> It appears that the .Rhistory file that should appear in my startup garry> directory garry> is not being created. garry> Thanks! garry> The screen shot below shows cled=TRUE and no .Rhistory file created: garry> $ /apps/R-1.5.1/bin/R garry> R : Copyright 2002, The R Development Core Team garry> Version 1.5.1 (2002-06-17) ...... >> capabilities("cled") garry> cledit garry> TRUE >> ls() garry> character(0) >> q() garry> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y garry> $ ls -sal *hist* garry> *hist*: No such file or directory -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._