[R] history and readline, Mac OSX

Berend Hasselman bhh at xs4all.nl
Wed Oct 17 16:27:52 CEST 2012


On 17-10-2012, at 15:39, Christian Hoffmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Obviously history() will only work with readline installed: so far I have not been able to find working advice for installing and enabling readline on MacOSX.
> 

This belongs on R-SIG-Mac.

Are you using a self compiled R?
If you are using the official R for Mac OS X (from CRAN) then libreadline is included in the R framework.

In that case if history() isn't working (how is it not working/ Error/warning messages?....) something else is going on.

Berend


> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] tools     tcltk     stats4    splines   parallel  datasets compiler
> [8] graphics  grDevices stats     grid      utils     methods base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] survival_2.36-14  spatial_7.3-3     rpart_3.1-53 nnet_7.3-1
> [5] nlme_3.1-104      mgcv_1.7-18       foreign_0.8-50 codetools_0.2-8
> [9] cluster_1.14.2    class_7.3-3       boot_1.3-4 Matrix_1.0-6
> [13] MASS_7.3-18       KernSmooth_2.23-7 cwhmisc_3.0 lattice_0.20-6
> >
> 
> Who is willing to give me advice?
> 
> TIA  -- Christian
> 
> -- 
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