Thanks, I guess my WinXP console isn't xterm 256 capable.
Any other thoughts? -----Original Message----- From: Romain Francois [mailto:romain.franc...@dbmail.com] Sent: 09 June 2010 09:57 To: Steve Brooks Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Highlighting Text in Console It depends what you mean by "console". The package xterm256 on CRAN can do some of that on xterm 256 capable consoles. See http://bit.ly/97cCbX Romain Le 09/06/10 10:50, Steve Brooks a écrit : > > > > > > Anyone know how I can highlight specific words/letters (e.g., bold, or > different colour) when displaying text to the console using cat or > equivalent? > > > > I can change e.g., the colour for everything by loading in a new > Rconsole file, but what I really want to do is write "hello world" to > the screen but with the word "world" highlighted in some way. > > > > I've searched the Web, the R manuals and the FAQ's but not found > anything yet. > > > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks. -- Romain Francois Professional R Enthusiast +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr |- http://bit.ly/98Uf7u : Rcpp 0.8.1 |- http://bit.ly/c6YnCi : graph gallery collage `- http://bit.ly/bZ7ltC : inline 0.3.5 ______________________________________________ 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.
