On 19-Sep-09 08:00:18, Cedrick W. Johnson wrote: > At least in windows, if you right click directly in the r console, > there's a command for 'Paste commands only' which may be one > solution... > Not sure about other platforms.. > > hth > c
It was precisely for this kind of reason that, when including R code in postings to the list, I took to formatting it in the following kind of way: a <- 1:10 a # [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 a[1:5] # [1] 1 2 3 4 5 In this way, any R commands copy-pasted into R will work as-is, anything else is a comment and will not interfere. I notice that some other people also post their code in this way. I recommend it to all! If the code has been copy-pasted into the email from an R console, then of course the ">" prompts will be there. But then I just edit these out of the email. A bit more trouble for me, but a lot less trouble for others. For instance, if someone had posted the above as copied from the R console in its original form > a <- 1:10 > a [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > a[1:5] [1] 1 2 3 4 5 and I wanted to try it out, then I would either have to re-open the email in "edit" mode so as to edit the email itself, or else copy-paste the above into a text-edit window[*] and pre-edit it there before copying into R. [*] I would be using 'vim' in a Linux xterm. Removal of the "> " prompts (or "+ " continuation prompts) from a long series of commands is relatively easy: Just higlight a column-block of the first two columns, then press "d" to delete them. But you would first need to enter " # " for other stuff by hand. Best wishes to all, Ted. > > johannes rara wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How do you people avoid copy-pasting and manual editing of the code >> posted in this list? I mean that if some one post a solution for an >> answer like this: >> >> >>> a <- 1:10 >>> a >>> >> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >> >>> a[1:5] >>> >> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 >> >> >> I have to copy-paste it to e.g. Tinn-R and remove "> " part of the >> line to try it in my R. When you keep doing this it gets quite >> annoying. How do you people avoid this (search and replace, perhaps?). >> The best way would be to able to send this straight from your e-mail >> reader into R (e.g. from gmail). >> >> -Johannes -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 19-Sep-09 Time: 09:33:48 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.