[R] Previous Commands

[Jason Turner]

Rau, Roland wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> 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?
> 
> I had R-1.7.1 installed previously via an RPM-package for my Mandrake 9.1
> distribution and everything went fine.

You need the readline-devel libraries installed.  Depending on what 
Linux distro you're currently on (still Mandrake?), they may be 
available as an RPM or Debian package.  Install them, then if you still 
have the source directory, do a "make distclean ; configure ; make", 
then make install and try again.  If you've deleted the source 
directory, just untar the source and rebuild.

Cheers

Jason
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