[Rd] R --interactive and readline() creates infinite loop

[Peter Dalgaard]

John Chambers wrote:
> My application, at least, wanted to show (my class) individual 
> commands from the file and then optionally insert some typed commands 
> before going on to the next part of the source file. As far as I can 
> see, the piped shell command approach will have to treat the whole 
> file at one time.
Hmmno... You can "cat -" multiple times if you want, terminating each 
with ctrl-D. That's not to say that it is the optimal solution though. 
Echoing the non-keyboard input seems a bit tricky, for instance.

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