[R] Programcode and data in the same textfile

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at volcanomail.com> writes:

> It would be even cleaner just to use stdin() but unfortunately
> stdin() does not work in sourced files (bug?).

Design issue. Source()'d files are checked for syntactical validity
before they are run. Saves the user from some embarrassments, although
far from all. Consequentially, it cannot allow you to include lines
that don't look like valid R.

(Another aspect of the source() design is that it cannot deal with a
potentially infinite stream of R commands. If we ever get around to
implementing a setReader() mechanism, then the embedded-data issue
might be solved simultaneously.)

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