Dear all I'd like to make a beeping sound in R, but alarm() doesn't beep? I checked ?alarm but I couldn't find any pointers to system configuration. Any ideas? Regards Liviu> sessionInfo()R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] plyr_1.7.1 Defaults_1.1-1 fortunes_1.5-0 sos_1.3-1 brew_1.0-6 -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
It doesn't seem to be super robust and might depend on how you are running R: for me (OS X 10.6), I get the beep at the terminal and in the R.app GUI, but not within RStudio. Michael On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear all > I'd like to make a beeping sound in R, but alarm() doesn't beep? I > checked ?alarm but I couldn't find any pointers to system > configuration. Any ideas? > > Regards > Liviu > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > locale: > ?[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C > ?[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > ?[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 ? ?LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > ?[7] LC_PAPER=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_NAME=C > ?[9] LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base > > other attached packages: > [1] plyr_1.7.1 ? ? Defaults_1.1-1 fortunes_1.5-0 sos_1.3-1 ? ? ?brew_1.0-6 > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Liviu; Is there a command you could call with system()? -- David. On May 5, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:> Dear all > I'd like to make a beeping sound in R, but alarm() doesn't beep? I > checked ?alarm but I couldn't find any pointers to system > configuration. Any ideas? > > Regards > Liviu > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] plyr_1.7.1 Defaults_1.1-1 fortunes_1.5-0 sos_1.3-1 > brew_1.0-6 > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT
The alarm() function just sends a ctrl-g (ASCII BEL character) to the console
terminal. If the terminal type recognizes this byte according to that
interpretation, and it is not locally configured to disable sound, then you
should hear an audible alert. Linux consoles typically do handle this. In X
Windows, you have many possible terminal emulators, so you will have to read the
documentation for the emulator you are using.
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Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear all
>I'd like to make a beeping sound in R, but alarm() doesn't beep? I
>checked ?alarm but I couldn't find any pointers to system
>configuration. Any ideas?
>
>Regards
>Liviu
>
>> sessionInfo()
>R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)
>Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
>locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
>[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
>attached base packages:
>[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
>other attached packages:
>[1] plyr_1.7.1 Defaults_1.1-1 fortunes_1.5-0 sos_1.3-1
>brew_1.0-6
>
>
>--
>Do you know how to read?
>http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm
>http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader
>Do you know how to write?
>http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>PLEASE do read the posting guide
>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.