Thanks, Gavin and Duncan. In that case, what I need is a suitable editor which can break the command properly.
All the best On 13 April 2012 19:33, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 17:46 +0800, Wincent wrote: >> Dear useRs, >> >> I am writing a vignette for a package, which contains long command like this, >> >reduce(Lipset_cs,"SURVIVAL",c("GNPCAP", "URBANIZA", "LITERACY", "INDLAB", >> >"GOVSTAB"),explain="positive",remainder="exclude",case="CASEID") >> It is longer than the width a page and part of it will become "missing". >> Currently, I have to manually break the command into multiple lines. >> Is there a better way to handle such issue? > > Not that I am aware of. > >> It seems that others have raised similar question which seems to >> remain unsolved in a satisfactory fashion. >> >> Thanks for your kind attention in advance. >> > > 1) use some spacing and format the code over multiple lines > > reduce(Lipset_cs, "SURVIVAL", > c("GNPCAP", "URBANIZA", "LITERACY", "INDLAB", "GOVSTAB"), > explain="positive", remainder="exclude", case="CASEID") > > Isn't that more readable?! Any good R-aware editor should be able to > handle appropriate formatting of the code. I *never* write long lines in > my editor; I always break the code down to fit roughly into a 72 column > editor window. > > 2) if you want to force Sweave to respect your new formatting, use > argument `keep.source=TRUE` for the code chunk. Or set it document wide > using \SweaveOpts{option1=value1, option2=value2} etc in the preamble > (where optionX is one of the arguments and valueX what you want to set > that argument too. > > Thought IIRC, `keep.source=TRUE` is the default now and as such Sweave > will respect your formatting by default now - before it broke lines > where it could. > > In short get out of the habit of writing long lines of R code; you'll be > better in the long run laying your code out logically. > > HTH > > G > > -- > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 > ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 > Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk > Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ > UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > > > -- Wincent Ronggui HUANG Sociology Department of Fudan University PhD of City University of Hong Kong http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/rghuang/cv/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.