[Rd] feature request: readline

Ben Bolker
Wed, 04 Jul 2001 21:07:32 -0000

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

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