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prompt wraps poorly on macOS #16
Description
When prompted to create a new AnnotationHub cache, at https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocFileCache/blob/master/R/utilities.R#L79 , I see the equivalent of
> txt = paste0(cache, "\n does not exist, create directory?", " (yes/no): ")
> readline(txt)
/Users/ma38727/Library/Caches/BiocFileCache
(yes/no): exist, create directory?
where '(yes/no):' has been aligned to the left; maybe readline() is trying to wrap line width?
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.0 alpha (2019-03-29 r76306)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Users/ma38727/bin/R-3-6-branch/lib/libRblas.dylib
LAPACK: /Users/ma38727/bin/R-3-6-branch/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] BiocFileCache_1.7.3 dbplyr_1.3.0
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.1 digest_0.6.18 crayon_1.3.4 dplyr_0.8.0.1
[5] assertthat_0.2.1 rappdirs_0.3.1 R6_2.4.0 DBI_1.0.0
[9] magrittr_1.5 RSQLite_2.1.1 httr_1.4.0 pillar_1.3.1
[13] rlang_0.3.3 curl_3.3 blob_1.1.1 bit64_0.9-7
[17] glue_1.3.1 bit_1.1-14 purrr_0.3.2 compiler_3.6.0
[21] pkgconfig_2.0.2 memoise_1.1.0 tidyselect_0.2.5 tibble_2.1.1
A solution might remove the \n and instead provide a single line, like
txt = paste0("'", cache, "' does not exist, create directory?", " (yes/no): ")
likely other uses of .util_ask() would need similar modification.
... or use cat() (stdout) for the body of the text, and readline() for "yes/no: "
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lshep commentedon Apr 2, 2019
neat - interesting tho I can't reproduce this even on celaya so maybe a more recent mac os thing -