[R] interactive prompts

Ko-Kang Kevin Wang kwan022 at stat.auckland.ac.nz
Mon Oct 20 13:50:20 CEST 2003


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Ernie Adorio wrote:
> 
> > Am using R on a Linux box and am currently writing an interactive R script.
> > 
> > 1. How do I ask a user to press any key to continue ? I used a system call to 
> > read but this only works if the Enter key is pressed:
> >   print("Press any key to continue")
> >   system("read")
> 
>   par(ask = TRUE)
> will do what you want.

Sorry, that will only work if you are plotting graphs.  I didn't quite 
read your question properly *_*.

-- 
Cheers,

Kevin

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