[R] Pause in non-interactive mode

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 05/02/2010 4:31 AM, Jonne Zutt wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I've found this nice code fragment on the web
> (from Jan T. Kim if I'm correct):
> 
> hitReturn <- function(msg)
> {
> 	invisible(readline(sprintf("%s -- hit return", msg)));
> }
> 
> But it does not seem to work in non-interactive mode
> ( I mean, when I start a script like this: R --vanilla < script.R )
> 
> It simply continues, I guess the stdin is not connected?

stdin is connected to script.R.  That's what the input redirection does.

> Does somebody know how to make it work.

You need to find some other way to communicate with R besides stdin, 
either for your script or for your response to the request to wait. 
It's probably easiest to do the former.  Just start R --vanilla,
then type source("script.R").  Then stdin is still your terminal, and 
the hitReturn function will work.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> My script plots a few graphs (in X11 windows) and I don't want them to
> disappear immediately.
> A Sys.sleep(infinite) would probably work, but I thought there might
> be a better solution?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonne.
> 
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