[R] Execution of larger blocks of pasted code often fails?

[Jim Lemon]

On 05/28/2013 04:54 PM, Mark Breman wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> When i paste a large block of R code from an editor to the R command line
> the execution of the code will often fail at some point because it is not
> pasted as it was copied.
>...

Hi Mark,
I have encountered this problem, and it may be due to the following:

Command lines entered at the console are limited to about 4095 bytes 
(not characters).

 From "An Introduction to R", included in the distribution.

Jim