Dear all,
I don't know what was the actual remedy, but after installing readline and
ncurses and then re-installing R, everything works fine (=calling the
commands history with the cursor keys).
I would like to thank for the help provided by Jason Turner, Philippe
Glaziou, Peter Dalgaard and Brian Ripley.
Best,
Roland
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [SMTP:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:49 AM
> To: Philippe Glaziou
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Previous Commands
>
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Philippe Glaziou wrote:
>
> > Rau, Roland <Rau at demogr.mpg.de> wrote:
> > > yesterday I took the R-1.8.0-source file and compiled it on my
> > > own. As I am using Linux just for a couple of weeks, it was my
> > > first compiling session with ./configure, make, ....
> > > Everything went fine, except for one thing: if I want to look
> > > at the commands history by using the cursor keys, it does not
> > > work. Instead of displaying the previous commands, it returns
> > > something like "[[A". Is this a common problem? Does
anyone
> > > have a solution?
> >
> >
> > You may need to install the ncurses dev libraries.
>
> More likely it is the readline-del[ev] RPMs/.debs/.... that you need.
> Take a look at the R-admin manual (e.g. doc/html/R-admin.html in the
> sources).
>
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