[R] wait for user input

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Bill Simpson wrote:

> I want to display a series of plots:
>
> display plot 1
> wait for user input (keypress or mouse click)
> display plot 2
> etc
>
> How to do it? Thanks for any help.
> (I have been using locator().)

par(ask=TRUE)  seems what you need.
You can also use readline() to get text input from the user.

In general you can't wait on just a keypress (except Return: the input is
line-buffered) or on a mouse click (R is not handling GUI events) on
Linux, which I seem to recall is your platform.


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