On Nov 19, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 19/11/2010 10:31 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> 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 was probably remembering SweaveHook. > >> > >> > 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> > > That one doesn't get updated with every prompt. > > Duncan Murdoch
D'oh....you are right. Thanks Duncan.... Time for more coffee... Marc ______________________________________________ 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.
