[R] copy/paste of large amount of code to terminal leads to scrambled/missing characters

[Bert Gunter]

Obvious suggestion: use a more capable IDE instead of Textmate2 with
copy/paste.

RStudio is very popular now, but there are many others . Search on e.g. "R
IDE For MAC" to see some alternatives.

Cheers,
Bert



Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
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On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

> This sounds like a problem with your editor or the OS clipboard support
> rather than R. You might get a response here, but R-sig-mac seems more
> appropriate to me for such discussion.
> --
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> On February 3, 2018 4:23:54 PM PST, Martin Batholdy via R-help <
> r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> >Dear R-users,
> >
> >This question might not be restricted to R, but I hope that some might
> >have experienced similar problems and could help me.
> >
> >When using R, I usually work with a text-editor (textmate2) in which I
> >prepare the script.
> >To execute code, I then copy and paste it to an R-session running in
> >the terminal/shell (on Mac OS).
> >
> >Unfortunately, when pasting too much code into the terminal (e.g. 60
> >lines), some characters are occasionally and randomly scrambled or
> >missing.
> >For example "col <- ifelse(..." turns into "col < col < cse(…".
> >
> >This happens very randomly, is difficult to predict, and while it only
> >affects a hand full of characters in total, it leads to a lot of errors
> >in the code execution along the way.
> >Apparently, it has to do with the buffer size and paste-speed of the
> >terminal.
> >
> >So far, I could not find any solution to the problem.
> >
> >Therefore, I wanted to ask;
> >Do others here use a similar workflow (i.e. having a text-editor for
> >coding and using copy/paste to the terminal for code execution) and
> >encountered similar problems with big chunks of code in the clipboard?
> >Are there any solutions for this problem, specifically for running R
> >over the shell?
> >
> >Thank you very much!
> >
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