[R] Prompt with scan()

[Ben Bolker]

  Do you mean readline()?

readline has a 32-character limit, which you can get around as follows:

 myreadline <- function(prompt="") {
  cat(prompt)
  readLines(n=1)
}





On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 john.janmaat at acadiau.ca wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using R to teach an undergraduate course in
> Econometrics.  For class demonstration purposes, I plan
> to prepare my scripts and be able to step through them.
> I noticed that the built-in demo prompts for an enter
> with what looks like the scan() function, but replaces
> the n: prompt with different text.  The on-line
> documention does not make it clear to me how to do
> this.  Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
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