Indeed. I can also get it to work if I type directly in Rterm. But not when
running from Tinn-R. If this is a Tinn-R problem (relating to however
command lines get from Tinn-R to the Rterm) then perhaps I should post it in
the Tinn-R problem.
Farrel Buchinsky


Sent from: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 13:08, jim holtman <jholtman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems to work fine with RTERM under my Windows:
>
> > ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")
> Are you a satisfied R user? yes
> > ANSWER
> [1] "yes"
> >
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I just discovered readline to provide user input. It is working as one
> > would expect in Rgui but not in Rterm. In Rterm it reads the entire
> > line of code not just the user input. How do I fix and what is the
> > issue that I should read about?
> >
> >
> > Here is my two line script:
> > ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")
> > ANSWER
> > So under RGUI one gets the following
> >> ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")
> > Are you a satisfied R user? yes
> >> ANSWER
> > [1] "yes"
> >
> > Under RTERM one gets
> >> ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")yes
> > Are you a satisfied R user?
> >> ANSWER
> > [1] "ANSWER <- readline(prompt=\"Are you a satisfied R user? \")yes"
> >
> > So I tried to hit enter after I saw the line in the terminal and this
> > is what I got:
> >
> >> ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")
> > Are you a satisfied R user?
> >> ANSWER
> > [1] "ANSWER <- readline(prompt=\"Are you a satisfied R user? \")"
> >
> > My R environment: Windows XP with service pack 3; R 2.8.1, tinn-R 2.2.0.2
> >
> >
> > Farrel Buchinsky
> >
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>
>
>
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>
> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
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