I have a generally successful compiled R 1.8.0 version installed on a SuSE 9.0 system. One frustration however is that the basic keyboard functions of BASH have not completely carried through and the up, down, left and right arrow keys don't behave as they do on the regular shell command line. That is no command history can be accessed and the cursor cannot be back-spaced over a recalled command to edit it. I expect that I am missing a "--with-" statment but I am not certain what it should be. Is there any help file that details the fine points for compiling R? INSTALL does not contain the information I am interested in. Thank you, jwdougherty
>From INSTALL:The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file `doc/html/R-admin.html'. Please read that before installing R. But if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to resolve any problems. Hint: you are missing the readline development RPMs, and that is covered in the manual you were asked to read. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, John Dougherty wrote:> I have a generally successful compiled R 1.8.0 version installed on a SuSE 9.0 > system. One frustration however is that the basic keyboard functions of BASH > have not completely carried through and the up, down, left and right arrow > keys don't behave as they do on the regular shell command line. That is no > command history can be accessed and the cursor cannot be back-spaced over a > recalled command to edit it. I expect that I am missing a "--with-" statment > but I am not certain what it should be. Is there any help file that details > the fine points for compiling R? INSTALL does not contain the information I > am interested in.but it does tell you *exactly* where to look. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, John Dougherty wrote:> I have a generally successful compiled R 1.8.0 version installed on a SuSE 9.0 > system. One frustration however is that the basic keyboard functions of BASH > have not completely carried through and the up, down, left and right arrow > keys don't behave as they do on the regular shell command line. That is no > command history can be accessed and the cursor cannot be back-spaced over a > recalled command to edit it. I expect that I am missing a "--with-" statment > but I am not certain what it should be. Is there any help file that details > the fine points for compiling R? INSTALL does not contain the information I > am interested in. > > Thank you, > jwdougherty > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >See the R Installation and Administration manual, available at CRAN and in the sources. Uwe Ligges