[R] Pasting a large chunk of R code in terminals

[Victor Tian]

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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