Is there a reason that readline still has a 32-character limit for the prompt, or is this just historical? Now that I/O is much expanded (thanks Dr. Ripley), readline() could be replaced by: readline <- function(prompt="") { cat(prompt) readLines(n=1) } Ben Bolker Permanent address: Zoology Department, University of Florida bolker@zoo.ufl.edu (352) 392-5697 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel 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-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._