select text in R console and editor

Hi,

Le 27 nov. 2004, ? 12:01, r-sig-mac-request@stat.math.ethz.ch a ?crit :

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:39:01 +0000
From: Tiago R Magalhaes <tiago17@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] select text in R console and editor
To: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch

Hi

sometimes when trying to select text with the mouse in either the R
console or an editor script, there's no way to do it. It's still
possible to select in some other areas, but in others it isn't.
Noting that important, but it has happened once in a while.

...

I have something only partially related to add: I'd like to select text 
in the console and delete it. In other words, after spending time 
making a program just right, my console window is full of my failed 
attempts. I'd like to remove the unwanted material (actually I'd like 
better to just "clear" the console, maybe leaving the R version number 
that is put there when opening R) and rerun my complete, debugged 
program to have a clean output for archiving. As of now the novice that 
I am had to quit R and reopen it to run my debugged program.

In short I'm not reporting a bug but asking for a feature, just a menu 
command to "clear the console".

Sincerely,

Denis Chabot