readline() (PR#147)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

holzer@stat.math.ethz.ch writes:

> > a <- menu(c("a", "b"), title="bitte:")
> bitte: 
> 1:a 
> 2:b 
> Selection: 2
> > a <- readline()
> Selection: hello
> > a
> [1] "hello"

Obviously a bug, which we'll get around to in due time. I'll just put
this in to remind the fixer that a similar bug got fixed very
recently.

> 
> By the way, wouldn't it be nice, if readline() had an argument `text', so
> one wouldn't need to use the ugly construction
> 
> cat(text)
> a <- readline()
> 
> Default of text could be "", so there would be no problem with
> compatibility.

Good idea.

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