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

[Victor Tian]

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
>
> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
>
> 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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>> > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>> >
>> > 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,
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Xu Tian*
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