Dear all Is it possible to get basic colour highlighting for inputs and outputs in the R terminal? I am looking for something similar to what GUIs provide, such as JGR and (I think) the Windows R GUI: colouring all inputs in red, and all outputs in blue. All this in a colour-aware console (in my case, on Linux).
I've been looking into xterm256 and highlight, but I am sofar unable to do with them what I would need. The closest I get to is with style() in xterm256: > require(xterm256) > cat( style( "hello world", bg = "black", fg = "blue"), "\n" ) hello world The text will appear blue. What I would want to achieve, however, is to be able to define some global options for input fg and bg colours, and output fg and bg colours. Then, for any command that I would execute, say `mean(1:5)', I would get: > mean(1:10) ##in red [1] 5.5 ##in blue > summary(1:5) ##in red Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. ##in blue 1 2 3 3 4 5 ##in blue Does anyone know a way to do this? Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.