Venables and Ripley's supplementary notes state that Unix R provides a command history mechanism in which previous commands can be recalled using the up and down arrows. My version of R (Digital Unix 4.0) doesn't appear to support this. Is this an installation issue and is there a workaround? Thanks, Philip Smith -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Philip L. Smith wrote:> Venables and Ripley's supplementary notes state that > Unix R provides a command history mechanism in which > previous commands can be recalled using the up and down > arrows. My version of R (Digital Unix 4.0) doesn't > appear to support this. Is this an installation issue > and is there a workaround?This requires the GNU readline library, which is detected at compile time by configure. You presumably either don't have GNU readline or have it somewhere that configure doesn't look. One possibility is /usr/local/{bin,include}, which isn't searched on some machines. If you have readline but it isn't being found you will need to edit config.site in the main R source directory to make sure that CPPFLAGS includes the directory containing the readline header files and LIBS contains the directory containing the library itself. If you don't have readline get it from ftp.gnu.org Thomas Lumley Assistant Professor, Biostatistics University of Washington, Seattle -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:45:21AM +1100, Philip L. Smith wrote:> Venables and Ripley's supplementary notes state that > Unix R provides a command history mechanism in which > previous commands can be recalled using the up and down > arrows. My version of R (Digital Unix 4.0) doesn't > appear to support this. Is this an installation issue > and is there a workaround?Obtain and install a recent version of the GNU readline library and then reconfigure and make R. Try: ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnu/readline/readline-2.2.1.tar.gz Ross -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._