Hi, I have R installed under a Mandrake linux system and I don't have shell utilities any more under my R console such as completion when writing a file path, back and forth in the history, bindkeys... Moreover when I quit R by saving, no .Rhistory file is created while the .Rdata is. I don't get how this work, I thought it was based on the user unix shell but it does not seem. Any ideas?? Thanks for you help, Laetitia.
The features you are looking for are provided to R by the readline library. Most likely, your version of R was not built with readline support. On some Linux distributions with package management systems (I'm not sure about Mandrake), you sometimes need to install a package named readline-devel or something like that (the development version of the library) before compiling R. -roger Laetitia Marisa wrote:> Hi, > > I have R installed under a Mandrake linux system and I don't have shell > utilities any more under my R console such as completion when writing a > file path, back and forth in the history, bindkeys... Moreover when I > quit R by saving, no .Rhistory file is created while the .Rdata is. I > don't get how this work, I thought it was based on the user unix shell > but it does not seem. > Any ideas?? > > Thanks for you help, > > Laetitia. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >
It depends on having readline available. If you compiled this yourself, please consult the R-admin manual (as INSTALL asks). If you installed an RPM, please talk to the provider of the RPM. On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Laetitia Marisa wrote:> I have R installed under a Mandrake linux system and I don't have shell > utilities any more under my R console such as completion when writing a > file path, back and forth in the history, bindkeys... Moreover when I > quit R by saving, no .Rhistory file is created while the .Rdata is. I > don't get how this work, I thought it was based on the user unix shell > but it does not seem. > Any ideas??-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595