[R] Arrow keys don't work in R

[Uwe Ligges]

Agustin Lobo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Besides the problem with gnome, I have now
> a compiled version of R-1.4.0 that has the
> same functionality than what I had from
> an rpm installation, except that the arrow
> keys (so useful to recover history and
> edit lines) write garbage like:
> 
> ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A
> 
> The keys work fine in both kde and xterm
> windows outside R. I suspect this might be something to
> specify in one of the Renviron files,
> but don't have the ones created by the
> rpm to compare.
> 
> By the way, the installation did not create
> any Renviron.site file, is this a problem?


It's not the Renviron.site file (you can create it manually, if you need
it). 
Looks like the readline library is not installed or was not linked
during the installation process.

Uwe Ligges
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