keypress {keypress}R Documentation

Read a single keypress at the terminal

Description

It currently only works at Linux/Unix and OSX terminals, and at the Windows command line. see has_keypress_support.

Usage

keypress(block = TRUE)

Arguments

block

Whether to wait for a key press, if there is none available now.

Details

The following special keys are supported:

Value

The key pressed, a character scalar. For non-blocking reads NA is returned if no keys are available.

See Also

Other keypress: has_keypress_support

Examples

## Not run: 
x <- keypress()
cat("You pressed key", x, "\n")

## End(Not run)

[Package keypress version 1.1.1 Index]