Message-ID: <1178290977.5100.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: 2007-05-04T15:02:57Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: keyboard issue in R console
In-Reply-To: <463B47C1.4090606@bms.com>
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 10:48 -0400, Hao Liu wrote:
> hi! All:
>
> I can do up or down arrow on keyboard to browse through command history
> on R console in windows. However, I can't do that on a linux xterm or
> console... I wonder how to make this feature work on linux... it will
> make working a lot more efficient...
>
> Thanks
> Hao
You are most likely missing the readline library and/or the readline
'devel' files, depending upon how you installed R.
See R FAQ 7.20 How can I get command line editing to work?
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-get-command-line-editing-to-work_003f
Additional information is available in the R Installation/Administration
Manual with your system or in HTML here:
http://cran.us.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html
HTH,
Marc Schwartz