Re: [R] Command History

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Ross Ihaka (ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:02:02 +1300 




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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