[R] ESS, transcripts, and such

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

A.J. Rossini wrote:
> Work in an inferior R session
> 
> M-x write-buffer     to TonyIsSilly.Rt
> 
> So now your buffer is associated with a file, TonyIsSilly.Rt
> 
> M-x R-transcript-mode
> 
> M-x ess-transcript-clean-buffer
> 
> and you should be left with a script file, not a transcript file.
> 
> Enjoy.   I'll be talking about such things at useR if enough people
> show up for the tutorial...

Those are useful to know.  I was more interested in why you advise
not working directly in the inferior process buffer.  Sorry for not
being more clear.

Kevin

> On 3/13/06, Kevin E. Thorpe <kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
>>A.J. Rossini wrote:
>><SNIP>
>>
>>>One nice thing about ESS/Emacs is that it will "cean" a transcript
>>>buffer.  So if you are working in the inferior process buffer (where
>>>you shouldn't be, but that's for another day), then you can write it
>>>to disk as a transcript file, and "clean" it into a script.
>>
>>Okay, I'll bite.  Could you ellaborate a bit on your parenthetical
>>comment?


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Kevin E. Thorpe
Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
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