R help - Apr 2003 - Interactive Input Problem

Hi,
I built and installed R-base-1.7.0 on SuSE 8.2 without any problems, but the 
interactive R interpreter, has problems with cursor movement:
> ls()
character(0)
> ^[[A^[[B^[[D^[[C^[[A^[[D^[[C^[[B^[[D^[[A
These ugly characters are produced by the arrow keys. Does anyone know how to 
fix that problem?

Ciao
	Sebastian

Hi Sebastian,

that looks more like a problem with your shell. which one are you using? perhaps
it it solved by using another one e.g. bash.  otherwise you can find at the end
of the *.pdf "R-intro"
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf  a
chapter called: the command line editor perhaps that helps.

cheers Martin


Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hi,
> I built and installed R-base-1.7.0 on SuSE 8.2 without any problems, but
the
> interactive R interpreter, has problems with cursor movement:
>
> > ls()
> character(0)
> > ^[[A^[[B^[[D^[[C^[[A^[[D^[[C^[[B^[[D^[[A
>
> These ugly characters are produced by the arrow keys. Does anyone know how
to
> fix that problem?
>
> Ciao
>         Sebastian
>
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