R help - Apr 1998 - R-beta: command line editing?

I would love to have bash-like command line editing in R. (Press up cursor
and see previous command line; use left cursor to go back then edit it)

Appendix B in Rnotes describes Splus I guess, not R.  Starting R by
R -e
doesn't let any of the following described actions (B.3) work.

I don't use vi or EMACs (I use Nedit), so I would prefer bash-like
interface anyway. (I don't think I even installed EMACs)

Thanks for any help!

Bill Simpson

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wsimpson at uwinnipeg.ca said:
> I would love to have bash-like command line editing in R. (Press up
> cursor and see previous command line; use left cursor to go back then
> edit it) 
I'm quite sure that Bash-like command editing is included in R (for sure it 
works in the version I use), and I'm equally sure that it require the
	readline
library.

If you have readline (the same library as bash uses) installed, then the 
configure script should compile in the command line editing.  If not, then not.

 --mike

Mike Meyer, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

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