If you open a typical *.Rout file , e.g. produced by   R CMD BATCH  foo.R
or from an R session part sent to you by e-mail ...

There's the  ESS-trans  menu  with the nice entry  'clean region'
which I use every so often.
Notably I use C-x h (mark whole page) and then M-x
ess-transcript-clean-region
[and now I found that I/we have had  ess-transcript-clean-buffer defined
already, but not on a key or a menu;
 ... I'm changing the things a bit, now].

However, as the subject says, if you have multiline statements, i.e.,
things like

>  foo <- long.calling.function(..., ..sdf.,..,.,.,.,.,,.,.........,
+                                .more arguments, .......)

the  ess-transcript-clean-region   only keeps the first line of the two in
the "cleaned buffer".
As I mention, this is not a new bug,
*however* it is not a very old bug either.
I'm pretty sure this did work okay in the old days of ESS 5.xxx

As that has bothered me more than once,
I'd like to have a look (or have you have a look) before releasing  ESS
13.09-1
... but not having us delaying the rlease for more than a few days.


Martin

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