[R] Previous Commands

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Philippe Glaziou wrote:

> Rau, Roland <Rau at demogr.mpg.de> wrote:
> > yesterday I took the R-1.8.0-source file and compiled it on my
> > own. As I am using Linux just for a couple of weeks, it was my
> > first compiling session with ./configure, make, ....
> > Everything went fine, except for one thing: if I want to look
> > at the commands history by using the cursor keys, it does not
> > work. Instead of displaying the previous commands, it returns
> > something like "[[A".  Is this a common problem?  Does anyone
> > have a solution?
> 
> 
> You may need to install the ncurses dev libraries.

More likely it is the readline-del[ev] RPMs/.debs/.... that you need.
Take a look at the R-admin manual (e.g. doc/html/R-admin.html in the 
sources).  

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