Hello folks, the problem with R not using GNU-readline is solved. Thank you very much for your help! Peter Dalgaard gave the hint that made it possible for me to diagnose the problem: ...rl_callback_read_char in config.cache was set to =no SuSe is normally a very fine Linux-distribution, but readline 2.2 has to be installed manually -- cu/ru... --------------------------------------------------------------- Wendelin Reich Tel. Job +49 551 397283 Dept. of Statistics and Econometrics Tel. prv +49 551 485522 Georg-August Univ. Goettingen D-37073 Germany wreich at gwdg.de -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._