From bolker@zoo.ufl.edu  Wed Jul  4 22:07:32 2001
From: bolker@zoo.ufl.edu (Ben Bolker)
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:07:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rd] feature request: readline
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0107041705430.2295-100000@eno.Princeton.EDU>


  Is there a reason that readline still has a 32-character limit for the
prompt, or is this just historical?

  Now that I/O is much expanded (thanks Dr. Ripley), readline() could be
replaced by:

readline <- function(prompt="") {
  cat(prompt)
  readLines(n=1)
}

  Ben Bolker

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[Rd] feature request: readline
Ben Bolker