[R] clear screen

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Paolo Covelli wrote:

> with CTRL + L, I obtain a manual "clear screen", 

not necessarily: what OS is this and what GUI, if any?

> is there also an analogous command to insert in a script?

What does outputting Ctrl-L (via cat("\015")) do?

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