Thank you for your very quick answers ! In fact, re-compiling it with readline support did the trick.
Have a nice day! Maximilien On 20 November 2010 14:08, Tobias Verbeke <tobias.verb...@openanalytics.eu> wrote: > Hi Maximilien, > > On 11/20/2010 01:51 PM, Maximilien Renard wrote: > >> I've just installed Linux (K)Ubuntu 10.10 as well as R and I'm stuck >> with a very annoying problem. >> >> I've compiled the latest R version from the sources without any >> problem, sadly when I start R in a terminal, it does not behave as >> expected. In fact, I cannot use the arrow keys (up, down, left, right) >> because they are automatically replaced with things like ^[[A >> >> I have no idea if it R related or not but it is very annoying and I'd >> appreciate any help. > > You need to compile R with readline support > (and for that libreadline-dev needs to be > installed IIRC). > > Best, > Tobias > -- Maximilien Renard ULB - MA2 Ingénieur Civil Biomédical maximilien.ren...@ulb.ac.be ren...@zib.de +32 476 63 68 92 ______________________________________________ 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.
