[R] Arrow keys don't work in R

[Liaw, Andy]

The readline-dev package need to be installed.  As Peter pointed out
earlier, check the config.log to see why readline is not found.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:51 AM
> To: Agustin Lobo
> Cc: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] Arrow keys don't work in R
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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