Escape readLines() function in RStudio

Question

Because of the work I do with R, I need to use the readline() function to enter text. The problem comes when sometimes, instead of writting readline() I run readLines() accidentally (due to autocomplete or whatever reason).

Once I have run readLines(), there is nothing I can do to escape the function. I can keep on writing but can't recover a prompt in the console (can't run any code) as I do not know how to close the readLines() function call. Any clues?

Note that this problem only happens in RStudio (and, according to Matt in the comments, Visual Studio).

Answer 1

Not a perfect fix, but you can use debug(). Anytime you do end up calling readLines() by accident, you can just exit browse[2] by typing Q.

debug(readLines)
readline()
asdf

[1] "asdf"

readLines()
debugging in: readLines()
debug: {
    if (is.character(con)) {
        con <- file(con, "r")
        on.exit(close(con))
    }
    .Internal(readLines(con, n, ok, warn, encoding, skipNul))
}

Browse[2]> Q

readline()
asdf

[1] "asdf"