This is the documented behaviour for R when used non-interactively. Presumably your `SSH' (probably really openssh) isn't using terminals for input and output.
You might like to try rterm --ess, a kludge for a similar problem in NTemacs. Or try a different ssh (a real Windows one, not one designed for systems with ptys). On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Bruce Moore wrote: > I'm having problems getting RTERM to work via SSH. > Whenever it has any type of problem, it abends instead > of issuing an error message and returning to the > > prompt. Both "server" and client are Windows/2000 > Professional at FP4. SSH is via Cygwin on both sides. > R is version is 1071. > > RTERM runs fine when run in a BASH shell on the > "server," though it does not prompt for --save > --nosave or --vanilla. It never does: no version of R prompts for those to my knowledge. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
