On Nov 19, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > Someone on stackoverflow.com was wondering how to display the current > time in the R prompt. I could have swore there was a mechanism for > hooking a function into R such that it is was called before the ">" > prompt was given, but no amount of searching in R's docs, R's source, > or RSiteSearch can find it. > > I've searched for 'hook', 'event', 'signal', and various combinations > of those with 'console', 'prompt', 'after' and 'before' with no joy. > I'm sure other people have asked this on R-help before, but I can't > find those messages either. > > Have I been hallucinating or is my search-fu week this Friday? > > Barry
Baz, What's wrong with: > options(prompt = paste(format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %X %Y %Z"), ">")) Fri Nov 19 09:30:53 2010 CST > Fri Nov 19 09:30:53 2010 CST > Fri Nov 19 09:30:53 2010 CST > ? HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
