[Rd] ask.yes.no() function

Dirk Eddelbuettel
2017-04-20T13:13:16Z

On 20 April 2017 at 09:33, Michael Sumner wrote:
| Perhaps worth pointing out "yesno" as a candidate:
|
| https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=yesno
| <https://cran.r-project.org/package=yesno>

Not really as

 i)  base R will not have dependencies outside of it

 ii) more importantly, Duncan asked for a good example of a
"consistent" (as
     in: predictable) question function yet you submit one which by design
     *varies* answers to be less predictable.

Dirk

| Cheers, Mike
|
|
|
| On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 at 21:55 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com>
| wrote:
|
| As described in
| <https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17242>, R base
| functions are currently inconsistent in asking interactive "yes/no"
type
| questions. One solution to this is to have a function to do it, and to
| use it consistently.
|
|
|
|
| Rather than just writing such a function and possibly missing some
| desirable feature, I'd like to ask if anyone can point to an existing
| one that is perfect (or nearly perfect, and point out what changes would
| be desirable)?
|
| Duncan Murdoch
|
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