Ive been using this routine for several years. Im sorry, I dont remember where I got it. It works as it should, viz. it blanks the R console. But it requires package rcom and now that requires rscproxy.
cls <- function () { require(rcom) wsh <- comCreateObject("Wscript.Shell") comInvoke(wsh, "SendKeys", "\f") invisible(wsh) } > cls() Loading required package: rcom Loading required package: rscproxy This seems like overkill to me just to blank the R console, especially since I am trying to diminish the number of necessary packages to support my home-brew package. So, is there an easier way to blank the R console in Windows? > sessionInfo() R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] splines tcltk stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] rcom_2.1-1 rscproxy_1.2-0 survival_2.35-3 RColorBrewer_1.0-2 RODBC_1.2-5 myhomebrew loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.8.1 > Charles Annis, P.E. charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com ______________________________________________ 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.