[R] Pause the execution of a function

Jonathan Daily biomathjdaily at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 20:09:54 CEST 2011


Try ?scan or ?readLines.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Lisa <lisajca at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to write a script to pause the execution of a function and
> provide some additional commands to the function and then continue execution
> of the function. For example, when my function detects a wrong number in a
> dataset, the function pauses automatically and returns information on the
> screen:
>
> “There is a wrong number in the dataset. Would you like to correct it? ”
>
> If I input “yes” from the keyboard and hit the enter key, the function asks
> again:
>
> “What is the correct number?”
>
> After inputting a correct number from the keyboard and hitting the enter
> key, the function continues to execute.
>
> Can anybody please help how to get this done? Thanks a lot in advance
>
> Lisa
>
>
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