From holzer@stat.math.ethz.ch  Thu Mar 25 10:49:26 1999
From: holzer@stat.math.ethz.ch (holzer@stat.math.ethz.ch)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:49:26 +0100
Subject: readline() (PR#147)
Message-ID: <199903251049.LAA17284@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Dear R developers,
I have found the following bug with readline() in R 0.63.3:
if you execute the menu-function and then the readline() function, then
readline() prompts "Selection:"

> a <- readline()
hello
> a
[1] "hallo"
> a <- menu(c("a", "b"), title="bitte:")
bitte: 
1:a 
2:b 
Selection: 2
> a <- readline()
Selection: hello
> a
[1] "hello"

By the way, wouldn't it be nice, if readline() had an argument `text', so
one wouldn't need to use the ugly construction

cat(text)
a <- readline()

Default of text could be "", so there would be no problem with
compatibility.

Peter

--please do not edit the information below--

Version:
 platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.5
 arch = sparc
 os = solaris2.5
 system = sparc, solaris2.5
 status = 
 status.rev = 0
 major = 0
 minor = 63.3
 year = 1999
 month = March
 day = 6
 language = R

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base

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readline() (PR#147)
holzer@stat.math.ethz.ch