[R] Previous Commands

[Philippe Glaziou]

Rau, Roland <Rau at demogr.mpg.de> wrote:
> yesterday I took the R-1.8.0-source file and compiled it on my
> own. As I am using Linux just for a couple of weeks, it was my
> first compiling session with ./configure, make, ....
> Everything went fine, except for one thing: if I want to look
> at the commands history by using the cursor keys, it does not
> work. Instead of displaying the previous commands, it returns
> something like "[[A".  Is this a common problem?  Does anyone
> have a solution?


You may need to install the ncurses dev libraries.

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Philippe Glaziou