[R] Odp: Pausing script to allow user input from keyboard.

[Michael Bedward]

I'm having problems with your method Petr.  I seem to get an additional prompt.

Example...
f <- function() {
  cat("\n", "Enter a string:", "\n")
  s <- scan(n=1)
  cat("\n", "You entered", s, "\n")
}

Running f() produces...

 Enter a string:
1: blah
1:
Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
  scan() expected 'a real', got 'blah'
>

Changing the code to
   scan(n=1, what="character")
Fixes the problem but your post implies that this is not necessary.

Could it be GUI specific ? I am running R 2.11.1 with the Mac OSX GUI
1.34 Leopard build 64-bit (5589)

Michael