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

[Eric Berger]

Hi Martin,
Why not just do the following?
In your editor after you create the script save it to a file, say "foo.R".
Then in your R session you give the command
> source("foo.R")

HTH,
Eric


On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:33 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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