I think readline() will do what you want. It can display a message and take user input, assigning it to a character value so you might need as.numeric()
Michael On May 2, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Ondřej Mikula <onmik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R-helpers, > I have a number of point configurations representing skull shapes, but > some of them contain superfluous points. I want to write a loop in > which each configuration is plotted and I am asked to write the > numbers of points that are superfluous. However, I don't know how to > introduce this interactive element. > Would you give me an advice? > Best regards > Ondřej Mikula > > > > -- > Ondřej Mikula > > Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics > Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic > Veveri 97, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic > > Institute of Vertebrate Biology > Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic > Studenec 122, 67502 Konesin, Czech Republic > > ______________________________________________ > 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.