[R] Arrow keys don't work in R

[Alberto Murta]

Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

If your Linux is from a recent SuSE distribution you must compile R with
both 'ncurses' and 'ncurses-devel' packages installed.


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