[R] alarm() doesn't beep

[R. Michael Weylandt]

It doesn't seem to be super robust and might depend on how you are
running R: for me (OS X 10.6), I get the beep at the terminal and in
the R.app GUI, but not within RStudio.

Michael

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all
> I'd like to make a beeping sound in R, but alarm() doesn't beep? I
> checked ?alarm but I couldn't find any pointers to system
> configuration. Any ideas?
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] plyr_1.7.1     Defaults_1.1-1 fortunes_1.5-0 sos_1.3-1      brew_1.0-6
>
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