gtools (version 3.5.0)

ask: Display a prompt and collect the user's response

Description

Display a prompt and collect the user's response

Usage

ask(msg = "Press  to continue: ")

Arguments

msg

Character vetor providing the message to be displayed

Value

A character scalar containing the input providede by the user.

Details

The prompt message will be displayed, and then readLines is used to collect a single input value (possibly empty), which is then returned.

See Also

readLines, scan

Examples

# 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")
}