I compiled R-1.5.0 on SuSE 7.2. Everything worked out, including make check. However, the escape sequences generated by the arrow keys are not correctly understood. So, I cannot e.g. get the previous command by up arrow. I had the same problem, when compiled R-1.4.1 on SuSE 7.2. The problem was not present in precompiled binary R-1.3.0.rpm for SuSE 7.2 from CRAN, however, I need at least R-1.4.1 for randomForest. Compiling R-1.4.1 on RedHat based system was also OK, but I have SuSE as my basic system. I compared the output of "strace R" for the precompiled R-1.3.0 and R-1.5.0 compiled by myself: The correct behaviour of R-1.3.0 may be due to the fact, that it reads /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm (in strace output: open("/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm", O_RDONLY) = 4), while the R-1.5.0 does not read it (no occurrence of "xterm" in strace output). I think, it should be something simple, but I do not know how to force R to read the terminfo file. I appreciate any help from you. Kind regards Petr Savicky -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._