[R] Highlighting Text in Console

[Steve Brooks]

Thanks,

I guess my WinXP console isn't xterm 256 capable.

Any other thoughts?


-----Original Message-----
From: Romain Francois [mailto:romain.francois at dbmail.com] 
Sent: 09 June 2010 09:57
To: Steve Brooks
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Highlighting Text in Console


It depends what you mean by "console". The package xterm256 on CRAN can 
do some of that on xterm 256 capable consoles.

See http://bit.ly/97cCbX

Romain

Le 09/06/10 10:50, Steve Brooks a écrit :
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> Anyone know how I can highlight specific words/letters (e.g., bold, or
> different colour) when displaying text to the console using cat or
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> I can change e.g., the colour for everything by loading in a new
> Rconsole file, but what I really want to do is write "hello world" to
> the screen but with the word "world" highlighted in some way.
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> I've searched the Web, the R manuals and the FAQ's but not found
> anything yet.
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> Any help greatly appreciated.
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> Thanks.


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