R help - Nov 2010 - R + Linux Ubuntu 10.10

Hi everyone,

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.

Thank you very much in advance.


Regards,


Maximilien

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Maximilien Renard
ULB - MA2 Ing?nieur Civil Biom?dical

maximilien.renard at ulb.ac.be
renard at zib.de

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