On 5/28/2013 2:44 AM, Jim Lemon wrote:
> 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.


       From within RGui, the "File" option (upper left menu) offers, 
"Source R Code", "New Script", "Open Script", ... .  I selected "Open 
Script", then pasted your sample section into that window. Then I 
highlighted the first three lines and selected Edit -> "Run line or 
selection   Ctrl+R".  That caused the selected lines to be run without 
the "paste" step.


       Another options is to use ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics, 
http://ess.r-project.org <http://ess.r-project.org/>). This has several 
advantages including an editor that interprets a file opened with a .R 
extension as R code and adjusts its display to help provide context 
sensitive indents -- to make it easier to see when you have failed to 
close a parentheses, coloring comment differently etc.  If you use 
Linux, you may already use Emacs.  If so, you only need to learn ESS.  
There's a separate email list for that.


       Hope this helps.
       Spencer

>
> Jim
>
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