Display a prompt and collect the user's response

Description

Display a prompt and collect the user's response

Usage

ask(msg = "Press <RETURN> to continue: ")

Arguments

Details

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

Value

A character scalar containing the input providede by the user.

Author(s)

Gregory R. Warnes greg@warnes.net

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")
}
   

Results