[R] break loop with keypress

[William Simpson]

Thanks Greg.
I guess another option is to call a C function directly. On Windows I
see there is a function _kbhit() in conio.h. Not sure if it would be
that simple.
Write a .c file

#include <conio.h>

int main(void)
{
  int ch;
  ch= _kbhit();
  return ch;
}

Then do the necessary stuff to call that from R.
http://mazamascience.com/WorkingWithData/?p=1067

Bill

On 06/08/2014, Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could create a tcltk window that looks for a button click and/or
> key press and when that happens change the value of a variable.  Then
> in your loop you just look at the value of the same variable and break
> when the value changes.
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:13 AM, William Simpson
> <william.a.simpson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This works, but it is not quite what I need:
>>
>> par(mar=rep(0,4))
>>
>> while(1)
>>   {
>>   img1<-matrix(runif(2500),50,50)
>>   dev.hold(); image(img1,useRaster=TRUE); dev.flush()
>>   img2<-matrix(runif(2500),50,50)
>>   dev.hold(); image(img2,useRaster=TRUE); dev.flush()
>>   }
>>
>> I would like to do this:
>> while(!kbhit())
>>   {
>>   ...
>>
>> where kbhit() polls the keyboard, returning a non-zero integer if the
>> keyboard buffer has something in it. The animation loop continues
>> until a key is pressed.
>>
>> All the ways of getting user input I have seen (e.g. getGraphicsEvent)
>> are not suitable because they would wait on each pass through the loop
>> until the key is pressed and therefore no animation would be
>> presented.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to present a continuous animation loop which is
>> broken upon user input (keypress or mouse button press)? I am using
>> Windows 7. Thanks very much for any help.
>>
>> Bill
>>
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