Cocoa GUI: pasting in R Console yields syntax error

Anthony

I faced the same problem and it took me some time to spot the origin: 
I have no clue where it can come from!( I suspect this happened when I 
moved from 1.9.0 to 2.0.0, OS X 1.3...). I know that the built in R 
editor is very handy: what I do is a "more myfile.r" on the terminal 
to check if there are weird characters and then delete then directly 
with the R editor. Not very efficient I reckon: OS X gurus may have 
another solution!

  David


On 6 Dec 2004, at 08:33, Anthony Westerling wrote:

I've recently upgraded to R-2.0.1 on a Mac running OS X 10.3+

I am using the new Cocoa-based GUI.  Everything was working well for 
a while.  In the middle of an R session, I started "suddenly" to have 
a problem where code copied from an open editor window and pasted 
into the R Console gives a syntax error.  It doesn't matter what the 
code is.  If the same exact text is typed into the console directly, 
I get no errors.

I tried quitting the R session and restarting.  The problem did not 
go away.

I tried using a different editor, instead of the built-in editor.  
After opening the file with my R code in it in AlphaX instead of the 
built-in editor, I could see that the text typed most recently ( ie, 
since the problem started) had a character that looked like an open 
square or box at the start of most lines.  I deleted these and can't 
see any other extraneous symbols in AlphaX.  However, I still get 
syntax errors when trying to paste code that was originally typed in 
using the built-in editor.  If I retype the same thing in the same 
file using AlphaX, one line below the original, then copy and paste 
into the R console, it executes without generating syntax errors.

So, it looks like something odd is going on with the built-in editor?

Anthony Westerling