R help - Jan 2003 - Command History

I have compiled R under Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7) with the readline-4.0
library linked.  Command line editing appears to work, but I cannot
access command history.  If I execute several commands in R, then type
"history()", I get the error message "Error in savehistory(file)
: no
history available to save".  Also, previous command recall (C-p) does
not seem to work.  I am invoking R directly from a Korn shell prompt.
Can you help?

Russ Pierce
Legerity, Inc.
Reading, PA
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Hello,

I had the same problem with Solaris 7 and 8. I just
re-compile readline (I used the readline-4.2) and recompile R
and no problem afterwards. I think it's better
not using the sunfreeware package of readline, it doesn't works properly
(1 year ago).

Good luck

PS
a/ to have static or shared library for readline 4.2 you have
2 different make steps (it is written in README somewhere and not
in the INSTALL file)
./configure
make
make intall
make shared
make install-shared
b/ I had some problem with bash2.05 and readline4.3 (on sparc-linux) so
may be readline4.3 is too new ?

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Russell D. Pierce wrote:
> I have compiled R under Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7) with the readline-4.0
> library linked.  Command line editing appears to work, but I cannot
> access command history.  If I execute several commands in R, then type
> "history()", I get the error message "Error in
savehistory(file) : no
> history available to save".  Also, previous command recall (C-p) does
> not seem to work.  I am invoking R directly from a Korn shell prompt.
> Can you help?
>
> Russ Pierce
> Legerity, Inc.
> Reading, PA
>