[R] one command on several lines

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Nick Kostrov <nikolai at eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp> writes:

> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to continue expand one command on several lines in R ?
> 
> An attempt to write
> 
> a=c(1990," ",1991,
>       1992, 
>       1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,
>      1999)
> 
> in a file and then 
> 
> source('file')
> 
> results in 
> 
> Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : syntax error on line 55 

Shouldn't be a problem if you just make sure that the preceding line
is incomplete, but if that "=" was meant as an assignment, then you'll
get the parse error even on one line.


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