[R] Keyboard Input

[Jonathan P Daily]

I apologize for being unclear in my original post. What I am trying to 
achieve is to capture the stdin() connection and read in a single 
keystroke - including arrow keys and the like - without having to have to 
use the return key each time. My goal is to create a small UI for rapidly 
looking through the results of a large simulation. As I think about it 
more, though, it is probably going to be easier to dump the data into 
files and look through it outside of R.

Thanks anyways,

Jon
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Jonathan P. Daily
Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center
11649 Leetown Road
Kearneysville WV, 25430
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"Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room,
 the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue it."
     - Jubal Early, Firefly

Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote on 03/15/2011 10:08:51 AM:

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> Bert Gunter 
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> to:
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> Jonathan P Daily
> 
> 03/15/2011 10:08 AM
> 
> Cc:
> 
> r-help
> 
> ?strsplit
> 
> x <- "ThisIsaString"
> y<- strsplit(x,"")
> 
> This gives a list, which you can convert to a vector by unlist(y)
> 
> Incidentally, you could have found out about strsplit via R's
> help.search("character string") (or similar) or even googling "R
> string function" . Please use R's native Help capabilities before
> posting to the list.
> 
> (I will grant that the unlist()  trick may not be that easy to find).
> 
> Also, it's often worthwhile searching the Help archives first. Peter
> Dalgaard answered this same question here a day or two ago.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bert
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Jonathan P Daily <jdaily at usgs.gov> 
wrote:
> > I was wondering if there is a way to get read in a single keystroke at 
a
> > time in R as a string, akin to ncurses-style interfaces. I looked into
> > readLines, readChar, etc. using stdin, but these all require the use 
of an
> > end of line. Has anyone ever had need to do this or have any ideas on 
how
> > to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jon
> >
> > PS I apologize if this double-sends, but I am having mail client 
issues.
> > --------------------------------------
> > Jonathan P. Daily
> > Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center
> > 11649 Leetown Road
> > Kearneysville WV, 25430
> > (304) 724-4480
> > "Is the room still a room when its empty? Does the room,
> >  the thing itself have purpose? Or do we, what's the word... imbue 
it."
> >     - Jubal Early, Firefly
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Bert Gunter
> Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics