On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Philippe Glaziou wrote: > Rau, Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yesterday I took the R-1.8.0-source file and compiled it on my > > own. As I am using Linux just for a couple of weeks, it was my > > first compiling session with ./configure, make, .... > > Everything went fine, except for one thing: if I want to look > > at the commands history by using the cursor keys, it does not > > work. Instead of displaying the previous commands, it returns > > something like "[[A". Is this a common problem? Does anyone > > have a solution? > > > You may need to install the ncurses dev libraries.
More likely it is the readline-del[ev] RPMs/.debs/.... that you need. Take a look at the R-admin manual (e.g. doc/html/R-admin.html in the sources). -- 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
