[R] Paste script in R stops before end of file

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Sun Feb 13 14:58:27 CET 2005


Tomas Willebrand wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I can only paste a limited amount of text into R (which is started in KDEs 
> Konsole). The script I have problem with stops pasting after 4224 characters, 
> and 78 lines. Although I can get Rs' attention at that point by just pressing 
> Return.  The script mainly consists of a a large amount of vectors that I 
> would like to join into a dataset for further analysis. Example of vector: 
> AC <- 
> c(1700,18000,18000,20000,19000,14500,24000,3421,3770,5045,11400,5775,4944,6765,13557,5200,7930,16400,14500,8900,10500,17000,18000,23500,28700,33200,26000,20000,27500,25100,20900,18500,27400,25000,12200,12200,8203,6958,8455,8828,7707,5217,5722)
> 
> There is no problem pasting the total script into different editors, and I can 
> paste all lines into vi when it is run in the Konsole. I can also divide the 
> script i 3 different parts that R would read through pasting. 
> 
> I use R 2.01 on a machine that have SuSE 9.2 with KDE3.3.2, kernel-smp 
> 2.6.8-24.11 installed and an Intel 3 GHz, 1056 MB RAM. I have set the coding 
> to ISO8859-1.
> 
> What puzzles me is that I have no problem pasting in the whole script in one 
> chunck using R 2.0.1 with SuSE 9.2 on a ThinkpadX40.
> 
> Is this likely to be a problem with my R installation? Any help is 
> appriciated.
> 
> /Tomas
> 
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Probably something with buffers.

Anyway, it's much easier to import data in a different way. If you 
already have them in R syntax, just source() the file containg the data...

Uwe Ligges




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