| ask {gtools} | R Documentation |
Display a prompt and collect the user's response
ask(msg = "Press <RETURN> to continue: ")
msg |
Character vetor providing the message to be displayed |
The prompt message will be displayed, and then readLines is
used to collect a single input value (possibly empty), which is then
returned.
A character scalar containing the input providede by the user.
Gregory R. Warnes greg@random-technologies-llc.com
# use default prompt
ask()
silly <- function()
{
age <- ask("How old aroe you? ")
age <- as.numeric(age)
cat("In 10 years you will be", age+10, "years old!\n")
}