[R] Problems with arrow keys

[Roger D. Peng]

It would seem that you don't have (the development libraries for) 
readline installed.  You need these when compiling from source.  On 
Redhat, the rpm is called readline-devel, but I'm not sure of the naming 
for Mandrake.  Check to see if something like this can be installed and 
then recompile.

-roger

Andrew Criswell wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I just built R-1.8.0 on my Linux-Mandrake 9.0 using the commands,
>
> ./configure --enable-R-shlib
> make
> make install
>
> It all seems to have gone fine.  But when I open R and use the arrow 
> keys to try to go back to previous lines, it doesn't work.  What I get 
> instead is something like.
>
> > ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A
>
> I didn't have this problem when I installed R-1.7.1 as rpm.  I could 
> make use of the arrow keys.
>
> Help!
>
> ANDREW
>
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