From mgeorg at arl.wustl.edu  Mon Oct 30 20:06:54 2006
From: mgeorg at arl.wustl.edu (Manfred Georg)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:06:54 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [Rd] interactive flag unix
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0610301253180.12789@bang.arl.wustl.edu>

Hi,

I would like to see a way to force R to be in interactive mode
with a flag.  So that the default behavior of being in interactive
mode if the input is from a keybord can be overridden.

Something like:
R --interactive
R --no-interactive

octave has a flag like this and it words nicely for what I need
(input from named pipe).
Anyway, the fix is just a simple change to src/unix/system.c
I can write a patch if you would like.
I think something like this already exists in the windows wrapper (--ess).

Also, what is up with the bug tracker?  Things in there seem to
be from 2000-2003 and a couple days after filing a bug I still don't
see it.  Is it being used?  And if not, it should probably be disabled,
so people don't waste their time posting to the wrong place.

Manfred

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[Rd] interactive flag unix
Manfred Georg