[R] R under Win95--question 1

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Art Salwin wrote:

> For moving around in the console, the documentation suggests
> a control-R keyboard command in which you

What documentation?  It's not in the console help screen nor in any R for
Windows documentation (nor any other R documentation that I could find). I
think you must be reading some documentation for readline-based systems
under Unix. The R for Windows README says:

GUI:
Command-line editing is available: see Help | Console for details.

TERMINAL/BATCH:
facilities needed for interactive use, including simple command-line
editing.

Differences from Unix versions of R
===================================

- Command-line editing is always available, but is much simpler than
  under readline-based input on Unix.

so this is clearly documented.

> can specify some text, so you can move back to a command
> line with that text in it.  Doesn't
> seem to work for me under Win 95?  Is there a way to do
> this?  Currently, the only way I can
> navigate the command history is to hit the up arrow once for
> each previous command that is to be bypassed.  So recalling
> a command that's 50 back in the list requires hitting
> up=arrow fifty times.

In R version 1.2 you will be able to list the history in a pager and
re-submit commands from there.  Now you can use savehistory() or the
menu item for this to save the history to a file and save it from there.


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