I am running an R script with thousands of lines that I want to run at once. In few of the lines while running the script, I want the running to pause to take input but that is not the case. When I ran the line of code below in isolation, there was a prompt to take input (i.e. 2024-07-01) :

key_date <- readline(prompt = "Enter date keys were received (i.e. 2024-07-01) and press enter:  ")

And later run:

key_date <- as.Date(key_date)
    FileName <- paste0(hpi_key_date, ".xlsx")

I got the desired result: i.e. "2024-07-01.xlsx"

But when I ran:

key_date <- readline(prompt = "Enter date keys were received (i.e. 2024-07-01) and press enter:  ")
    key_date <- as.Date(key_date)
    FileName <- paste0(hpi_key_date, ".xlsx")

there was no prompt for user to take input, and this gives a misleading object value afterwards (i.e "hpi_key_date <- as.Date(key_date).xlsx") instead of the desired "2024-07-01.xlsx" when I run FileName

Any help will be appreciated.