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Message-ID: <4e2p21947nh3ofuorh8uvrrl08or1h4cj2@4ax.com>
Date: 2005-03-07T17:11:09Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: How can we ring a bell in Windows?
In-Reply-To: <20050307163107.63099.qmail@web17110.mail.tpe.yahoo.com>

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.

Duncan Murdoch