I get the following with R v2.14.1 patched on Windows 7: % Rterm --vanilla --silent
> sessionInfo() R version 2.14.1 Patched (2011-12-26 r58001) Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > readline(sprintf("%-*s:", 180, "A prompt")) A prompt : [1] "" > q("no") Error: caught access violation - continue with care It is a consistent behavior. /Henrik ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel