[R] Maximum number of pasted 'code' lines?

[Paul Hiemstra]

Michael Just wrote:
> Hello,
> I write most of my R code in excel and then paste it into R. I am wondering
> if there is a limit to how much I can paste? I want to paste about 19,000
> lines of code should this work? I am doing this because when I did it chunks
> it took about an hour and half. I thought if I could insert it all and leave
> it for that long that would be better time management. I am still waiting
> for 19,000 paste to process. Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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Hi,

For windows I use the Tinn-R text editor that integrates nicely with R. 
For linux I use Kate (standard KDE text editor). 19000 lines of code, 
pfieuw, that is a lot of code....you could export the lines to a text 
file and load them into R using source().

cheers,
Paul

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