[R] Interactive Input Problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Martin Wegmann wrote:

> that looks more like a problem with your shell. which one are you using? perhaps
> it it solved by using another one e.g. bash.  otherwise you can find at the end
> of the *.pdf "R-intro" http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf  a
> chapter called: the command line editor perhaps that helps.

Sorry, no, no shell is involved.  This is what happens in Unix R if the 
readline library is not compiled in/activated (you can start R with
--no-readline).

Since you said you built `R-base-1.7.0' (not sure what that is: an SRPM?)
my guess is that you don't have the readline development tools on your
system.  Take a look at the configure output, and see what it said about
readline. You may need to install libreadline-devel or something like
that.

> Sebastian Huber wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I built and installed R-base-1.7.0 on SuSE 8.2 without any problems, but the
> > interactive R interpreter, has problems with cursor movement:
> >
> > > ls()
> > character(0)
> > > ^[[A^[[B^[[D^[[C^[[A^[[D^[[C^[[B^[[D^[[A
> >
> > These ugly characters are produced by the arrow keys. Does anyone know how to
> > fix that problem?
> >
> > Ciao
> >         Sebastian
> >
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