[R] readline() and Rterm in Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

What does `not work' mean here?  In particular, what does `running an R 
script in' mean?

It works as I would expect: if foo.R contains

 	id <- readline("Please enter ID: ")

then

> source("foo.R")
Please enter ID: 5
> id
[1] "5"

Please do read the posting guide and explain what you are doing it enough 
detail for people to reproduce it.


On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Mikkel Grum wrote:

> I'm running an R script in Rterm and would like the
> user to be prompted for input as in:
>
> id <- readline("Please enter ID: ")
> myfunction(id)
>
> . . . etc.
>
> This works when I run one line at a time in RGui, but
> not when I try to run the script in Rterm (I'm working
> with R 2.2.0 in Windows Server 2003).
>
> Is there any way to do this?

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