I don't get the impression that you understood the part of my response where I said the feature does exist.
You might find reading ?file helpful, in particular the section titled "Clipboard". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On October 29, 2015 12:26:56 PM MST, Victor Tian <tianx...@gmail.com> wrote: >Not a specific problem. Just an issue encountered pasting R codes in >terminals from time to time. > >Cheers, > >Xu > >On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:46 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> Another good reason for using "source" instead of copy/paste is that >if an >> error occurs, the 'sourced' script will stop at the error, while the >> copy/paste will keep on chugging away, knowing who does what in the >rest of >> the script. Most of the editors I have used on Windows (notepad++, >tinn-r) >> support highlighting code and then automatically creating a temporary >file >> that is 'sourced' in. >> >> >> Jim Holtman >> Data Munger Guru >> >> What is the problem that you are trying to solve? >> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. >> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Victor Tian <tianx...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >>> Thanks, Marc and Jeff, for the advice of running a file of R code >rather >>> than a chunk of R code. >>> >>> Just thought it would be nice to have a feature like this so that >there's >>> still a sense of interaction in running R code. >>> >>> It was a random idea and I think using "source" would achieve the >same >>> goal. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Xu >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Jeff Newmiller < >>> jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > I highly recommend ?source. >>> > >>> > You can use source("clipboard") on windows, but creating complete >files >>> > that define functions and feeding those complete files to source >is a >>> > significant step in developing reproducible analyses. Whenever you >find >>> > yourself pasting more than a couple of lines (one or two function >calls) >>> > you should be making another function. However, even if you resist >>> making >>> > functions you should be making a habit of sourcing complete files >from >>> disk >>> > rather than passing large chunks of code. >>> > >>> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... >Go >>> Live... >>> > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. >Live >>> > Go... >>> > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. >Playing >>> > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. >with >>> > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. >>> rocks...1k >>> > >>> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >>> > >>> > On October 29, 2015 8:16:17 AM MST, Victor Tian ><tianx...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> > >Hi there, >>> > > >>> > >Often times, I would run R in the terminal when the task is >>> > >computationally >>> > >intensive and a nice-looking UI is less desired. >>> > > >>> > >However, pasting a large chunk of code into the terminal often >times >>> > >ends >>> > >up being messed up. In Python, the same problem would happen, >however, >>> > >iPython provides a small functionality called magic word such as >%paste >>> > >that can help paste the code neatly into the terminal. >>> > > >>> > >I'm wondering if there's a similar functionality in R. >>> > > >>> > >Thanks, >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Xu Tian* >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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. >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.