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[rex.dwyer at syngenta.com]

Hi Jon,  I read your question differently.  Is the answer?  - Rex

> ch=scan(stdin(),what=character(0),n=1)
1: f
Read 1 item
> ch
[1] "f"
>

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Bert Gunter
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:09 AM
To: Jonathan P Daily
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] (no subject)

?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.
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