On May 28, 2013, at 19:26 , Mark Breman wrote: > Thanks everyone for the suggestions. > > If the problem is caused by a restriction in one of the (software) > components i'm using (OS, terminal etc), should the remaining of the pasted > code simply be missing after the point where the error occurs? As can be > seen from my example above the entire block of code is pasted and is > executed by the R command line, although with errors from the point where > the first error occured.
Looks like it is dropping characters when its input buffer runs full. That's pretty typical behavior for terminals (real and emulated). > > Can it be that the paste mechanism i'm using (from GEdit to GNOME terminal > on Ubuntu Linux) is adding control characters between pasting multiple > blocks of code and these (invisible) characters are causing the problem? -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
