[R] R --no-readline ?, was: history and readline, Mac OSX

Christian Hoffmann c-w.hoffmann at sunrise.ch
Thu Dec 6 10:14:54 CET 2012


Hi,

By chance I came across an iESS buffer showing that  R had been started 
with this option:

R --no-readline

This seems to prevent the use of history() which I noticed earlier.

Why is this start option chosen, and where can I change this?

ESS version 5.13, R:

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] C

attached base packages:
  [1] tools     tcltk     stats4    splines   parallel  datasets compiler
  [8] graphics  grDevices stats     grid      utils     methods base

other attached packages:
  [1] survival_2.36-14  spatial_7.3-5     rpart_3.1-55 nnet_7.3-5
  [5] nlme_3.1-105      mgcv_1.7-22       foreign_0.8-51 codetools_0.2-8
  [9] cluster_1.14.3    class_7.3-5       boot_1.3-7 Matrix_1.0-9
[13] MASS_7.3-22       KernSmooth_2.23-8 cwhmisc_4.0 lattice_0.20-10
 >

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