| readline | R Documentation |
readline reads a line from the terminal (in interactive use).
readline(prompt = "")
prompt | the string printed when prompting the user for input. Should usually end with a space |
The prompt string will be truncated to a maximum allowed length, normally 256 chars (but can be changed in the source code).
This can only be used in an interactive session.
A character vector of length one. Both leading and trailing spaces and tabs are stripped from the result.
In non-interactive use the result is as if the response was RETURN and the value is "".
readLines for reading text lines from connections, including files.
fun <- function() { ANSWER <- readline("Are you a satisfied R user? ") ## a better version would check the answer less cursorily, and ## perhaps re-prompt if (substr(ANSWER, 1, 1) == "n") cat("This is impossible. YOU LIED!\n") else cat("I knew it.\n") } if(interactive()) fun() Add the following code to your website.
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