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interactive {base}R Documentation

Is R running interactively ?

Usage

interactive()

Value

This function returns TRUE when R is being used interactively and FALSE when not.

See Also

source

Examples

 .First <- function() if(interactive()) x11()
[Package base version 0.60 ]