[Rd] automatic "paste" filter to paste only the commands from a transcript on the clipboard

[Peter Dalgaard]

Tony Plate <tplate at blackmesacapital.com> writes:

> Just for fun (and actually because I would use it too) I wrote a
> version of the "paste" menu command that assumes the clipboard
> contains a transcript, and just pastes the commands from it into
> the R console window (Windows GUI only).
> 
> So, if something like this:
> 
>  > foo <-
> + 33
>  > foo * 3
> [1] 99
>  > foo
> [1] 33
> 
> is on the clipboard, then the "paste commands" menu command will just paste
> 
> foo <-
> 33
> foo * 3
> foo
> 
> into the console window. (Resulting in this case in the original contents
> of the clipboard being reproduced in the console window.)
> 
> Is anyone interested in having this functionality in R?
> 
> If there's enough interest in this to incorporate it into R, I'll package it
> up as a patch (I did it in R 1.8.1).  (BTW, I only implemented it for the
> Windows GUI, but it was pretty simple, so I'm sure if there's much
> interest someone could easily port it to other GUIs).

A similar item exists in ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics): "M-x
ess-clean-transcript" or thereabouts. Much loved by those who know it
is there.

A version that works on the contents of a Tk text widget might not be
a half bad idea to have.

        -p

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