[R] Getting scan() -command to work during the program run

[Bert Gunter]

No clue.

-- Bert


Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
and sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Atte Tenkanen <attenka at utu.fi> wrote:
> Hi Bert,
>
> I tried using the function, but still the same problem. If there is
> something after the scan-line, scan does not let me to enter any input but
> the program just run forward like before.
>
> I have OSX 10.9.5. and R 3.3.2.
>
> Atte
>
> 20.12.2016, 17.19, Bert Gunter kirjoitti:
>>
>> ??
>>
>>> f <- function() {X <- scan(n =1); X}
>>> f()
>>
>> 1: 3
>> Read 1 item
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Bert
>> Bert Gunter
>>
>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>> and sticking things into it."
>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Atte Tenkanen <attenka at utu.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How to get scan(file="") command to ask my input from the keyboard?
>>>
>>> If I put the command straight to the console it works
>>>
>>>> X1 <- scan(n=1)
>>>
>>> 1: 22
>>> Read 1 item
>>>
>>> but as a part of a program it just continues without asking my value?
>>>
>>>> X1 <- scan(n=1)
>>>
>>> 1:
>>> Read 0 items
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>> Atte Tenkanen
>>>
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