Yes, thats right, readline will give you character and now you need to convert it to numeric to make it work.
Thanks SmartG On 25 July 2011 08:51, Ista Zahn <iz...@psych.rochester.edu> wrote: > readline always returns a character. See ?readline for details. > > Best, > Ista > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Bansal, Vikas <vikas.ban...@kcl.ac.uk> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I am using the following function so that user can input a numerical > value. > > > > readnumber<- function() > > { > > for(j in 1:10){ > > value=readline("enter the threshold for number of reads: ") > > if(is.numeric(value)==T) > > {return(value) > > break} > > else > > print("wrong number Please enter numerical value ")} > > > > } > > > > But if by chance user tries to put character it will show the message- > > wrong number Please enter numerical value > > > > now when I am calling this function and entering numerical value,then > also it is showing the message-wrong number Please enter numerical value > > > > Can you please tell me what mistake I am doing? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanking you, > > Warm Regards > > Vikas Bansal > > Msc Bioinformatics > > Kings College London > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > -- > Ista Zahn > Graduate student > University of Rochester > Department of Clinical and Social Psychology > http://yourpsyche.org > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- SmartG [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.