We can also say that in recent versions of R you have to choose deliberately to disable readline when building R. (This is made quite hard: I am currently building R on a brand new Solaris 10 system, and I had to work to get the right 64-bit libreadline linked in. Just having libreadline[-devel] missing is not enough.)
I think Hao Liu needs to explain how he managed to do this, by giving the basic information asked for in the posting guide, e.g. - version of R - what is 'linux' here - how R was installed (from sources, RPM, .deb ....) On Fri, 4 May 2007, Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 10:48 -0400, Hao Liu wrote: >> hi! All: >> >> I can do up or down arrow on keyboard to browse through command history >> on R console in windows. However, I can't do that on a linux xterm or >> console... I wonder how to make this feature work on linux... it will >> make working a lot more efficient... >> >> Thanks >> Hao > > You are most likely missing the readline library and/or the readline > 'devel' files, depending upon how you installed R. > > See R FAQ 7.20 How can I get command line editing to work? > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-get-command-line-editing-to-work_003f > > > Additional information is available in the R Installation/Administration > Manual with your system or in HTML here: > > http://cran.us.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.