[R] Prompt / Console problem

[Laetitia Marisa]

Hi,

I have R installed under a Mandrake linux system and I don't have shell 
utilities any more under my R console such as completion when writing a 
file path, back and forth in the history, bindkeys... Moreover when I 
quit R by saving, no .Rhistory file is created while the .Rdata is. I 
don't get how this work, I thought it was based on the user unix shell 
but it does not seem.
Any ideas??

Thanks for you help,

Laetitia.