> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:35 PM > To: jim holtman > Cc: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] 'scan' in a script? > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:05 PM, jim holtman<jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you want the value printed in the script, then use the > 'print' function: > > > > print(MyNames) > > > > There is an implicit 'print' when you type an object's name at the > > command line, but with you have it within a script, you have to > > explicitly print it. > > > <SNIP> > > That's good to know in terms of reliably getting the data out but my > bigger problem right now is it doesn't wait for me to type any input > and therefore my program (running as a script) doesn't know what to > do. > > I guess this must be me doing somethign jsut plain wrong. I figured > I'd ask and get an answer in 30 seconds. Strange I'm that far off. If > I need to run it in the interpreter instead of source it then for now > I can do that until I learn what I'm doing wrong. > > I've got more interesting questions of which the answers are far more > important to me than this one! > > Thanks, > Mark
Mark, Take a look at the readline() function. Hope this is helpful, Dan Daniel Nordlund Bothell, WA USA ______________________________________________ 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.
