How can we ring a bell in Windows?
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 00:31:07 +0800 (CST), Lu Joseph <c_joseph_lu at yahoo.com.tw> wrote :
Hello useRs, Is there a way to write code in R to ring a bell in Windows?
If you load the tcltk package, then tkbell() will get you a bell on more platforms than just Windows. If you don't want to use tcltk, then you could call the Windows API function MessageBeep from some C code, but I don't think we have a "bell" or "beep" function in the standard R packages.
But there is the ANSI "\a": cat("\n") works as expected, on all platforms.
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