[R] readline issue with 3.3.1

Ralf Goertz r_goertz at web.de
Wed Jul 20 11:35:31 CEST 2016


Hi,

after a recent update to version 3.3.1 on Opensuse Leap I have problems
with command lines longer than the terminal width. E.g. when I do this

> print("This is a very long line which is in fact 
so long that it gets wrapped while writing it")

and then hit enter I end up with:

> print("This is a very long line which is in fact 
[1] "This is a very long line which is in fact so l
ong that it gets wrapped while writing it"


So the output overwrites the second line of input. This does not happen
when I start R without readline support using "R --no-readline". That's
why I thought it could be a readline problem. But my current readline6
version (6.2) was installed way before the update of R and I had no
problems with the previous R version. Furthermore no other program using
readline seems to have that problem. E.g. in bash:

me at host:~/some/dir> echo This is a very long line which is in fact 
so long that it gets wrapped while writing it
This is a very long line which is in fact so long that it gets wrapped whi
le writing it



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