R help - Feb 2010 - getting input from the console when running R in batch mode

Hello list:

I am using R through Geany in Ubuntu.  The way i have Geany configured is that
upon invoking the exectute command, Geany does a "R <myscript.R
>myscript.out", thus getting all input from the myscript.R file and
redirecting all output to the myscript.out file.

This is a problem when I want to read, say a numeric value, from the keyboard,
or when i'd like to output something to the console:
num <- scan(stdin(),what=numeric(1),lines=1)
Iin this case R ignores the stdin() connection (which should be a terminal
class).

Is there an easy way around this problem, other than reading my data from a file
or using the tcltk library?  All i'd like to do is just read values from the
terminal/console.

Thanks in advance,
jose romero


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