[R] Previous Commands

[Philippe Glaziou]

Philippe Glaziou <glaziou at pasteur-kh.org> wrote:
> 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.

oops, sorry, I meant readline. And then re-configure.

-- 
Philippe