[R] How can we ring a bell in Windows?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 00:31:07 +0800 (CST), Lu Joseph
> <c_joseph_lu at yahoo.com.tw> wrote :
>
>> Hello useRs,
>>
>> Is there a way to write code in R
>> to ring a bell in Windows?
>
> If you load the tcltk package, then
>
> tkbell()
>
> will get you a bell on more platforms than just Windows.  If you don't
> want to use tcltk, then you could call the Windows API function
> MessageBeep from some C code, but I don't think we have a "bell" or
> "beep" function in the standard R packages.

But there is the ANSI "\a": cat("\n") works as expected, on all platforms.

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