[R] Problem running RTERM via SSH on Windows/2000

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is the documented behaviour for R when used non-interactively.
Presumably your `SSH' (probably really openssh) isn't using terminals for 
input and output.

You might like to try rterm --ess, a kludge for a similar problem in 
NTemacs.  Or try a different ssh (a real Windows one, not one designed for 
systems with ptys).

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Bruce Moore wrote:

> I'm having problems getting RTERM to work via SSH. 
> Whenever it has any type of problem, it abends instead
> of issuing an error message and returning to the >
> prompt.  Both "server" and client are Windows/2000
> Professional at FP4.  SSH is via Cygwin on both sides.
>  R is version is 1071.
> 
> RTERM runs fine when run in a BASH shell on the
> "server," though it does not prompt for --save
> --nosave or --vanilla.

It never does: no version of R prompts for those to my knowledge.

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