How do you clear the R console in OS X (or Ubuntu) [duplicate]

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Function to Clear the Console in R

In bash, its like this:

$ clear

And I believe it's CTL-L in the Windows version of R. But how do you clear the R console in Unix-type开发者_高级运维 R Consoles? Do you need to write a special function and what would that look like?

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Command+Option+L in R for Mac OS X

Ctrl+L in RStudio for Mac OS X

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Since you ask for Ubuntu as well, it's simply Ctrl-L from a standard gnome-terminal.

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I discovered that you call also type unix commands with the system() function.

system('clear')

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For what it's worth, my console to R is provided by ESS on whichever platform I use -- and as that is within Emacs, it is always Ctrl-l (or C-l in the common shorthand for Emacs).

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Create this function:

cls <- function() cat(rep("\n",100))

Then call it:

cls()

Compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac.