Pasting a large chunk of R code in terminals

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

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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,

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*Xu Tian*

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