Output not colored in xterm and gnome-terminal about crayon

[gaborcsardi]

This does not seem to be a crayon error to me, the terminal simply does not interpret the colors. E.g. try

cat("\033[34mfoobar\033[39m")

Does this come out as blue?

[alaindanet]

Thank you very for your help!
However, it did not come out in color either in gnome-terminal and xterm.

> library(crayon)                                                                                             
> cat("\033[34mfoobar\033[39m")                                                                               
34mfoobar39m>

[gaborcsardi]

Yeah, that's the thing, the problem is not with crayon, it is seemingly with your terminal or terminal settings.

[alaindanet]

Okay, I go to look on this side.
Thanks again!

[alaindanet]

Well, here is the summary of the various test that I ran.

• My terminal supports colors:

• In R, colorout which provides
  colored output in R console, is working well:

library(crayon)
cat(blue("test"))

library(colorout)
rnorm(5)
noColorOut()
rnorm(5)  

The previous command lines gives:

BUT, the two packages are actually incompatibles:

library(colorout) # ColorOut activated
library(crayon, help)
cat(blue("Hello", "world!\n"))
noColorOut() # Colorout inactivated
cat(blue("Hello", "world!\n"))

gives:

When colorout is activated, crayon is not working!

Thank you so much for your help!

[gaborcsardi]

It is a bug in colorout then. It assumes that the output is not colored.

[alaindanet]

Yes, I will notify the maintainer of the package.

[alaindanet]

The problem was fixed after updating colorout to the version 1.2.0.

jalvesaq/colorout#17

[gaborcsardi]

Cool.