[ESS] new user questions: appending to transcripts and buffer management

[gerald.jean at dgag.ca]

ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch a écrit sur 2010/08/15 14:32:56 :

> On 08/15/2010 01:22 PM, Charles C. Berry wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Andrei Jirnyi wrote:
> >
> >> What I think would be quite useful to have is a command to select a
> >> block of
> >> text in the transcript buffer, and copy it to the clipboard in such a
way
> >> that would (i) remove the command prompts; and (2) comment out all
> >> output.
> >> Also an option to select a region in the main ESS buffer, and copy it
> >> to the
> >> clipboard with the above done automatically, would save quite a bit of
> >> manual work, at least for me -- usually I want to have at least some
> >> of the
> >> output as comments in the code.
> >>
> >
> > I hear you.
> >
> > I use to work like that.
>
> > More recently I learned about org-babel:
> >
> > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/index.php
> >
> > thanks to a posting by Eric Iverson pointing to his blog, I think. See
> >
> > http://blogisticreflections.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/introduction-
> to-using-r-with-org-babel-part-1/
> >
>
> Yes, that's mine.  I agree that org-mode is probably worth looking into
to see
> if it works for you.  I'm about 95% done with an extended introduction
> to working with R source code in an org-mode buffer, which will have
> examples of all the things mentioned by Charles.  I will let you know
> when it is finalized.  The introduction is itself written in org-mode,

Please Erik, post to the whole list, others, me anyway, could be
interested.

Gérald Jean
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> so you can follow along to see its capabilities in an interactive
> document.
>
> --Erik
>
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