R help - Jul 2006 - VERY TINY question: missing function to clear the console?

Hi,

for presentation purposes I would like to clear to whole console  
window (like in a UNIX terminal: 'clear').

Is there such a function?

If not, I could image that is not too hard to write such a function.

Cheers,

Hans

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm using R 2.3.1 on Mac OSX 10.4.7  
via R.app GUI.

On 13 Jul 2006, at 12:53, Joris De Wolf wrote:

> ctrl+l
>
>
Thanks, but unfortunately this doesn't work on my Mac.

Hans

>
> Hi,
>
> for presentation purposes I would like to clear to whole console
> window (like in a UNIX terminal: 'clear').
>
> Is there such a function?
>
> If not, I could image that is not too hard to write such a function.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hans
>

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:47:09PM +0200, Hans-Joerg Bibiko
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> for presentation purposes I would like to clear to whole console  
> window (like in a UNIX terminal: 'clear').
> 
> Is there such a function?
> 
> If not, I could image that is not too hard to write such a function.
At the risk of this being a stupid answer: An easy way would be

    system("clear");

This should work under unixes that provide the "clear" command,
don't know
about windows.

If there is no "clear screen" function in R (I haven't seriously
looked
for one), I think one of the reasons for that might be that writing that
in a multi-platform portable way is actually a somewhat more laborious
thing to do than it seems.

Best regards, Jan
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