On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Max Reuter wrote: > Dear all, > > I am running R in the terminal (X11) of Mac OS. Recently, I upgraded > my OS from 10.3 to 10.4 and installed version 2.3.1 of R. Since > then, R has the annoying behaviour of scrolling long command lines to > the left, rather than breaking the line and showing the entire > command on several lines. Starting R with '--no-readline' fixes the > problem, but at the price of losing command line history and working > arrow keys. > > Is there a way to way to define what R does to long command lines?
It isn't R! This is a function of readline and the terminal, not of R which has not yet seen the line. What is likely is that your R install (how did you install it?) is built against a readline clone (I believe there is one from NetBSD? in MacOS 10.4) rather than GNU readline, and the fix is likely to be to install GNU readline and then rebuild R from 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
