[R] Arrow keys don't work in R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Agustin Lobo wrote:

>
> Problem solved, thanks to the many
> who offered their help: readline was installed
> but readline-devel was not.
>
> (config.log was not that useful as the following 3 lines
> configure:8610: checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline
> configure:10229: checking for readline/history.h
> configure:10229: checking for readline/readline.h
>
> state the checking but not the actual result.
> I wonder if there is not an easy way to make sure that
> all elements needed by make are present, this would
> also help me with my problem with gnome).

That's *exactly* what configure is doing.  If you looked at the output
from configure, it does tell you the result.

On gnome, the R-admin manual does tell you what is needed.

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