keypress
Wait for a Key Press in a Terminal
v1.3.2
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May 28, 2026
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MIT + file LICENSE
Description
Wait for a single key press at the 'R' prompt. This works in terminals, but does not currently work in the 'Windows' 'GUI', the 'macOS' 'GUI' ('R.app'), in 'Emacs' 'ESS', in an 'Emacs' shell buffer or in 'R Studio'. In these cases 'keypress' stops with an error message.
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| Flavor | Status |
|---|---|
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc | OK |
| r-devel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-patched-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-windows-x86_64 | OK |
Check History
OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
PDF version of manual
Rd conversion errors: Converting parsed Rd's to LaTeX Warning in file(out, "wt") : cannot open file '/tmp/RtmpO9Tvr0/ltx229cbb682361b3/has_keypress_support.tex': No space left on device Error in file(out, "wt") : cannot open the connection
OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 3, 2026
NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
NOTE
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>’
No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
Authors@R: c(person(given = "Gábor",
family = "Csárdi",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "csardi.gabor@gmail.com"),
person(given = "Jon",
family = "Griffiths",
role = "aut"))
as necessary.
NOTE
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor@gmail.com>’
No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
Authors@R: c(person(given = "Gábor",
family = "Csárdi",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "csardi.gabor@gmail.com"),
person(given = "Jon",
family = "Griffiths",
role = "aut"))
as necessary.