Message-ID: <19991214130202.B9925@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 1999-12-14T00:02:02Z
From: Ross Ihaka
Subject: Command History
In-Reply-To: <199912132345.KAA13262@sherman.psych.unimelb.edu.au>; from Philip L. Smith on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:45:21AM +1100
On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:45:21AM +1100, Philip L. Smith wrote:
> Venables and Ripley's supplementary notes state that
> Unix R provides a command history mechanism in which
> previous commands can be recalled using the up and down
> arrows. My version of R (Digital Unix 4.0) doesn't
> appear to support this. Is this an installation issue
> and is there a workaround?
Obtain and install a recent version of the GNU readline library
and then reconfigure and make R.
Try:
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnu/readline/readline-2.2.1.tar.gz
Ross
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