[R] readline() is reading the entire line and not just the user input

[jim holtman]

Seems to work fine with RTERM under my Windows:

> ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")
Are you a satisfied R user? yes
> ANSWER
[1] "yes"
>

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i386-pc-mingw32

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just discovered readline to provide user input. It is working as one
> would expect in Rgui but not in Rterm. In Rterm it reads the entire
> line of code not just the user input. How do I fix and what is the
> issue that I should read about?
>
>
> Here is my two line script:
> ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")
> ANSWER
> So under RGUI one gets the following
>> ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")
> Are you a satisfied R user? yes
>> ANSWER
> [1] "yes"
>
> Under RTERM one gets
>> ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")yes
> Are you a satisfied R user?
>> ANSWER
> [1] "ANSWER <- readline(prompt=\"Are you a satisfied R user? \")yes"
>
> So I tried to hit enter after I saw the line in the terminal and this
> is what I got:
>
>> ANSWER <- readline(prompt="Are you a satisfied R user? ")
> Are you a satisfied R user?
>> ANSWER
> [1] "ANSWER <- readline(prompt=\"Are you a satisfied R user? \")"
>
> My R environment: Windows XP with service pack 3; R 2.8.1, tinn-R 2.2.0.2
>
>
> Farrel Buchinsky
>
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