similar to: repeat { readline() }

I'm running an R script in Rterm and would like the user to be prompted for input as in: id <- readline("Please enter ID: ") myfunction(id) . . . etc. This works when I run one line at a time in RGui, but not when I try to run the script in Rterm (I'm working with R 2.2.0 in Windows Server 2003). Is there any way to do this? Mikkel

I get the following with R v2.14.1 patched on Windows 7: % Rterm --vanilla --silent > sessionInfo() R version 2.14.1 Patched (2011-12-26 r58001) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base

Thanks for the new updates in v2.2.1. I just noticed a few "problems" on http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/. 1) The CHANGES and NEWS files for v2.2.1 does not include info on v2.2.1 but only details up until v2.2.0, cf. http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS 2) The patched version is now denoted "beta" (files and installation directory), which I believe is

Hello, please excuse me if this is not the appropriate mailing list, but I'll give it a try! I recently switched from using Emacs 20.7.1 to XEmacs 21.4, both on cygwin / MS W2K. On Emacs the ESS 5.1.17 was working well, but now, when calling R from within XEmacs, it first asks for the working directory, then says "R process is not running". The ESS buffer holds the

Dear friends, In configuring R 2.4.1 for Solaris 11, using SunStudio 11 compilers, I get the following error. checking readline/history.h usability... no checking readline/history.h presence... no checking for readline/history.h... no checking readline/readline.h usability... no checking readline/readline.h presence... no checking for readline/readline.h... no checking for rl_callback_read_char

Dear community, I'm trying to install R-2.2.1 on an IRIX 6.2 (Unix System V Release 4) system without root access. Unfortunately readline is not installed in default, so I installed it locally in my home directory, more precisely in: $HOME/vol/readline-5.1, where $HOME is "/home3/fa/faga001". Afterwards I appended the path to the library with several $PATH variable, which now looks

Dear community, I'm trying to install R-2.2.1 on an IRIX 6.2 (Unix System V Release 4) system without root access. Unfortunately readline is not installed in default, so I installed it locally in my home directory, more precisely in: $HOME/vol/readline-5.1, where $HOME is "/home3/fa/faga001". Afterwards I appended the path to the library with several $PATH variable, which now looks

Can anyone offer suggestion about getting readline to work on Solaris? (v1.5.1) When I use the up arrow or ctrl-p to try to repeat the last command my session just beeps. It appears that the .Rhistory file that should appear in my startup directory is not being created. Thanks! The screen shot below shows cled=TRUE and no .Rhistory file created: $ /apps/R-1.5.1/bin/R R : Copyright 2002, The

We've recently "upgraded" a server to solaris 8, and in reinstalling R I've encountered a problem in getting it to recognize the readline library. I have installed readline in what I believe to be the "usual" place: /usr/local/lib with include files in /usr/local/include/readline. But ./configure produces: ragnar.econ.uiuc.edu# grep readline hout checking for

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:

Hi, I just edited this page: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/DarwinPorts I thought I''d post something to this mail-list in hopes of an answer.. I''m running Tiger. On my Mac, I cannot get past installation of readline: mac:~ mac$ sudo port install readline Password: ---> Fetching readline ---> Attempting to fetch readline51-001 from

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

Am trying to install 2.14.0 on a CentOS system. The configure script apparently can't find something to do with the readline library: Configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available Yes, I know I need readline 4.2 or later. "yum" assures me that rev 5.1 is already installed. And I know I need to provide configuration flags if it is in

Hi everyone, I am following instructions here as I have generated the following warning: > # stuff looping through some plots with ask=TRUE Hit <Return> to see next plot: Hit <Return> to see next plot: Hit <Return> to see next plot: Hit <Return> to see next plot: Hit <Return> to see next plot: In addition: Warning message: An unusual circumstance has arisen

Hi all, Trying to install R-1.7.1 on a RedHat 8.0 platform, I have a few problems. R gets installed without default packages (but base and ctest) : make script fails at the end of the procedure (configure is made successfully). This is the (translated) log I have : /gcc -I../../../../include /usr/include/mysql -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -mieee-fp -fPIC -g -O2 -c ansari.c -o ansari.o gcc: cannot

A few days ago on R-help I asked about a cross-platform timeout version of readline(). Some suggestions, but only partial joy so far. I can get the Gnu bash 'read -t ...' to work in Windows by using the 'bash -c ' construct, but then R's system() function does not seem to allow this to pass through. Similarly a Perl and Free Pascal routine that I tried, the latter being a

Dear R users, I am trying to install R 1.7.1 on a sparc-sun-solaris2.8 system. although gnu readline is installed and works fine on the parent directory, R is not recognizing it. I get the following in the config.log file. configure:11627: checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline configure:11658: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c -lreadline -ldl -ltermcap -lm

R compiles very easily under Mandrake 9.2, with one exception: readline seems not to work. for some odd reason, in the configure script, rl_callback_read_char is set to no, so the R configure script does not use readline (I think this means it refuses to link readline into the executable, but I am not sure.) Now, MD 9.2 uses libreadline 4-4.3-7mdk (yes, it is installed), rather than

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200 ------- Additional Comments From dtucker at zip.com.au 2002-06-12 00:21 ------- I tried it on NetBSD/sparc 1.5.2. The first problem was obvious: gcc [flags] -c sftp-int.c sftp-int.c:32: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory sftp-int.c:33: readline/history.h: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 readline.h and history.h are in

I am trying to install R2.4 in a non-standard folder on a mandrake 10 system. I did this: ./configure --prefix=/the/dir/where/I/want/r/to/go and I got the following error: configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available I know that I can do --with-readline=no But, I do want this readline feature. I have a whole bunch of readline libraries: