[R] Pasting a large chunk of R code in terminals

[Jeff Newmiller]

I don't get the impression that you understood the part of my response where I said the feature does exist.

You might find reading ?file helpful, in particular the section titled "Clipboard".
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On October 29, 2015 12:26:56 PM MST, Victor Tian <tianxu03 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Not a specific problem. Just an issue encountered pasting R codes in
>terminals from time to time.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Xu
>
>On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:46 PM, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Another good reason for using "source" instead of copy/paste is that
>if an
>> error occurs, the 'sourced' script will stop at the error, while the
>> copy/paste will keep on chugging away, knowing who does what in the
>rest of
>> the script.  Most of the editors I have used on Windows (notepad++,
>tinn-r)
>> support highlighting code and then automatically creating a temporary
>file
>> that is 'sourced' in.
>>
>>
>> Jim Holtman
>> Data Munger Guru
>>
>> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Victor Tian <tianxu03 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Marc and Jeff, for the advice of running a file of R code
>rather
>>> than a chunk of R code.
>>>
>>> Just thought it would be nice to have a feature like this so that
>there's
>>> still a sense of interaction in running R code.
>>>
>>> It was a random idea and I think using "source" would achieve the
>same
>>> goal.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Xu
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Jeff Newmiller <
>>> jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I highly recommend ?source.
>>> >
>>> > You can use source("clipboard") on windows, but creating complete
>files
>>> > that define functions and feeding those complete files to source
>is a
>>> > significant step in developing reproducible analyses. Whenever you
>find
>>> > yourself pasting more than a couple of lines (one or two function
>calls)
>>> > you should be making another function. However, even if you resist
>>> making
>>> > functions you should be making a habit of sourcing complete files
>from
>>> disk
>>> > rather than passing large chunks of code.
>>> >
>>>
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>>> >
>>> > On October 29, 2015 8:16:17 AM MST, Victor Tian
><tianxu03 at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> > >Hi there,
>>> > >
>>> > >Often times, I would run R in the terminal when the task is
>>> > >computationally
>>> > >intensive and a nice-looking UI is less desired.
>>> > >
>>> > >However, pasting a large chunk of code into the terminal often
>times
>>> > >ends
>>> > >up being messed up. In Python, the same problem would happen,
>however,
>>> > >iPython provides a small functionality called magic word such as
>%paste
>>> > >that can help paste the code neatly into the terminal.
>>> > >
>>> > >I'm wondering if there's a similar functionality in R.
>>> > >
>>> > >Thanks,
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Xu Tian*
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