[R] How can we ring a bell in Windows?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 00:31:07 +0800 (CST), Lu Joseph
<c_joseph_lu at yahoo.com.tw> wrote :

>Hello useRs,
>
>Is there a way to write code in R
>to ring a bell in Windows?

If you load the tcltk package, then

tkbell() 

will get you a bell on more platforms than just Windows.  If you don't
want to use tcltk, then you could call the Windows API function
MessageBeep from some C code, but I don't think we have a "bell" or
"beep" function in the standard R packages.

Duncan Murdoch