[R] Scripting with an external editor

[Jim Lemon]

I've had time to return to the "external editor" project. The following 
function does almost what I want, which is to allow an external editor to 
feed command lines to R.

ext.editor<-function(editor) {
 ext.input<-pipe(editor,"r")
 eval(parse(ext.input))
 close(ext.input)
}

While the description of parse() indicates that it should parse input line by 
line, the output of the editor is not read until it exits. The external 
editor is sending the output as requested, so I must be using the wrong 
connection setup. Any hints?

Jim

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