[R] WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

[A.J. Rossini]

That looks like what happens if one runs R from one of the older
Emacs sub-shells.  (esp the pager bit).

It's possible but unlikely that something wrong with comint.  ESS
should have redirected the output of

    ?sink 

to a different buffer.

Another possibility is that you've configured things differently,
i.e. have you a edited any

    options()

(prompt, or more likely, pager, or other options?).  Emacs/ESS doesn't
like that unless you tell it about them.




Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> Thomas Schönhoff <tom_woody at swissinfo.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> first trials to run R from inside of Emacs repeatedly gives me:
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>  > ?sink
>> 
>> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
>> -  (press RETURN)
>> 
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Seems like this is going to happen to all help calls using a questionmark!
>> Any idea how to change this, maybe this isn't subject to change at all!???
> ...
>> emacs21        21.3+1-7
>> ess            5.2.2-2
>
> Odd. You'd get that sort of error if you tried to run a pager in a
> shell buffer, but ESS should intercept it and dump the help page into
> a separate buffer. Any chance you're not actually running ESS?
>
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