[R] alarm() doesn't beep

[Jeff Newmiller]

The alarm() function just sends a ctrl-g (ASCII BEL character) to the console terminal. If the terminal type recognizes this byte according to that interpretation, and it is not locally configured to disable sound, then you should hear an audible alert. Linux consoles typically do handle this. In X Windows, you have many possible terminal emulators, so you will have to read the documentation for the emulator you are using.
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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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