How to include interactive input in script to be run from the command line

Question

I am trying to write an interactive R script. For example:

try.R:

print(\"Entr some numbers. >\",quote=F)
a = scan(what=double(0))
print a
q()
         


        

Answer 1

What worked for me on Windows with RStudio 0.98.945 and R version 3.1.1 was:

    cat("What's your name? ")
    x <- readLines(con=stdin(),1)
    print(x)