similar to: Another question about getting command history

Hello, We are using R 1.4.1 on Solaris 8. The director of our lab says that it should be possible, when using R interactively, to repeat your previous command by pressing the up-arrow key (similar to the command history feature in the tc shell). I have not been able to find any mention of this command history feature in any of the R documentation, but the lab director is adamant that this

Full_Name: Cyril Humbert Version: 1.5.0 OS: linux Submission from: (NULL) (193.50.159.2) Hitting ^C breaks readline history (when R is stared in an xterm). xterm -e R ^C -> arrow key and history stop working. For example, up-arrow gives "^[[A". ldd ./R.bin [../..] libreadline.so.4.1 => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.1 (0x40020000) libncurses.so.5 =>

I am trying to build [R] v1.3.1 *locally* on a Sun Solaris 8 machine. One problem I am currently struggeling with is to make the command-line history function to work. I have installed GNU readline version 4.2 (latest version). Looking at the "config.log" file it seems that all readline related checks, e.g. "readline/history.h", passes (they did not before installing GNU

Does anybody know a way to edit your command line arguments on the command line, other than deleting everything and re-typing? My user just want to be able to use emacs like commands - like you can do in a shell, and s-plus from what he says. I attempted to set up the emacs add-on, without much success, on a Solaris 7 box, but he doesn't really want that, he just wants the command line

Hello! I'm trying to install R-1.9.1a with readline on Suse Linux. As recommended in other posts, I've installed readline and readline-devel: kevin@redtail:~/R-1.9.1> rpm -qa | grep readline readline-devel-32bit-9.0-0 readline-32bit-9.0-0 readline-4.3-207 readline-devel-4.3-207 Then I run configure with readline: ./configure --with-readline The relevant lines are:

g'day R friends, I was hoping someone could provide me with advice as to my dysfunctional 'arrow' keys. Instead of browsing thru my command history they just move my cursor. What have I done wrong? My TERM seems ok for other unix apps. I'm running under hpux 10.20 with R1.0.0 thanks, John Strumila -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Hi, I have installed R1.6.2 on a Sun Sparc workstatioin 60 under Solaris 8. I' m using csh, tcsh or bash- shell. Unfortunately, it is impossible to use the "arrow-up" key on Sun's German keyboard to repeat a R command by using this key. Always following syntax error occurs: ^[[A Does anybody have a hint ? Thanks Klaus-P. Pleissner -- Dr. Klaus-Peter Pleissner Max Planck

Full_Name: Bill Kristan Version: 1.3.0 OS: Linux Mandrake 8.0 Submission from: (NULL) (138.23.159.84) I just downloaded the "unofficial" Mandrake 8.0 rpm from cran. So far the only problem I've encountered is that my arrow keys no longer scroll through my command history, but give ^[OA and ^[OB instead. Left and right arrow navigation within a line is also broken. I checked

Hi, > history() gives Error in savehistory(file) : no history available to save although I can scroll throu history with C^uparrow an C^downarrow. How can I make history() work and/or show the current history in a file, so that I can choose from previous commands? The web did not throw up anything useful. TIA --Christian -- Christian W. Hoffmann, CH - 8915 Hausen am Albis,

Hi, Obviously history() will only work with readline installed: so far I have not been able to find working advice for installing and enabling readline on MacOSX. > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] C attached base packages: [1] tools tcltk stats4 splines parallel datasets compiler [8] graphics

Hello everyone, I downloaded the latest Linux version of R and tried installing it, but during the installation process I found that this version of R requires tcl 8.3 and tk 8.3. The problem is that I've been unable to find Linux versions of tcl 8.3 and tk 8.3. The only Linux versions of tcl/tk I've been able to find are 8.4. Has anybody been successful in getting R to install on

Hi All, I am having trouble installing the sm package, and only the sm package. My box is RedHat 7.3 on a PIV. Readline 4.3-3 is installed (suited for RH 8, but same error under readline 4.2 for RH 7.3), but it seems to be looking for the readline library in the wrong directory. Will installing readline 4.1 do the trick? What else could be done? Rohan Sadler [root at rsadler R]# R CMD

Hi all, I just upgraded to R-1.8.0. Everything worked fine but command line editing does not work. This clearly indicates that readline has not been found in the compilation process. How could I explicitely indicate where to find it ? I use a Red Hat 8.0 system. I checked the FAQ which says readline-devel is also needed, but I have it already installed. Perhaps should I add the configure

Hello useRs! I'm REALLY having trouble with readline when compiling R. 2.2 from source during ./configure. Here are the last lines of the configure log: checking readline/history.h usability... yes checking readline/history.h presence... yes checking for readline/history.h... yes checking readline/readline.h usability... yes checking readline/readline.h presence... yes checking

Hi all, Are there any plans to add more functionality to command-line editing and history editing on the command line? In MATLAB (I know, comparisons are odious ...), you can type "p" and up-arrow on the command line and scroll through the recently entered commands beginning with "p". This is a very useful feature and something that I believe is not replicated in R. Please

Hi, I am not sure if this is a bug, so I am posting it here. I also searched the FAQ file for the readline string and did not find anything about the behavior below. I just successfully rsync'ed, compiled and tested R-1.4.0 on my RH 7.2 Linux machine. I encountered one problem though. When running ./configure I noticed that I was getting errors from the readline library. Although

CRAN now has a package called rcompletion that attempts to provide TAB completion for R using the GNU readline library, intended for R sessions run from a command line. From the package help page: Description: This package provides pseudo-intelligent TAB completion for a readline enabled instance of R when it is run from a terminal (or more specifically, an interface which uses

CRAN now has a package called rcompletion that attempts to provide TAB completion for R using the GNU readline library, intended for R sessions run from a command line. From the package help page: Description: This package provides pseudo-intelligent TAB completion for a readline enabled instance of R when it is run from a terminal (or more specifically, an interface which uses

This question is about compiling R-1.6.2 from source on a Sparcstation-20 machine running Solaris 7, gcc-2.95.3 and readline-4.2 (both gcc and readline from sunfreeware.com). I searched the r-help archive and the FAQ. The errors seem to be related to the binary readline libraries, and I have /usr/local/lib/libreadline.a,libreadline.so@, and libreadline.so.4. The attached errors are from

When I try to install the R RPM under Mandrake Linux 7.1 (intel), I get the following error: [root at edgeworth programs]# rpm -ivh R-base-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libreadline.so.3 is needed by R-base-1.1.1-1 [root at edgeworth programs]# I do have realine installed: [root at edgeworth programs]# rpm -qa | grep readline readline-4.1-4mdk and