I'm not sure how to put it in a function (or if this helps), but Ctrl+L will clear the R Console in Windows.
Cheers, Dan Viar On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. <charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com> wrote: > Thank you Gabor. I'm sorry I forgot whom to acknowledge as the author. > > My (limited) understanding is that rcom with rscproxy essentially give the R > session the ability to look like a server, and that this scares some who are > concerned with security issues. I don't want any more capability than > necessary and thus wanted something less potent to clear the console. > > Thanks for the insight. > > Charles Annis, P.E. > > charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com > phone: 561-352-9699 > eFax: 614-455-3265 > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 7:31 PM > To: charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] clear screen? > > You got it from my post here: > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/02/21556.html > > Don't know why rcom's dependencies are a consideration > but RDCOMClient can also handle this: > > cls <- function () { > require(RDCOMClient) > wsh <- COMCreate("Wscript.Shell") > wsh$SendKeys("\f") > invisible(wsh) > } > cls() > > > > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. > <charles.an...@statisticalengineering.com> wrote: >> I’ve been using this routine for several years. I’m sorry, I don’t > 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. >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
