On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 05:59:44AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > >Let's take this step-by-step. First, I strongly recommend using knitr over > >Sweave (this is not just a personal preference). If you go to Help > > >Specific Manuals > Knitr and compile, does it work? > > Scott, > > Interesting. I'll take a little time to try this, but after a lot more > research I believe that I indentified the problem: Sweave (at least) wants > to run R code to produce a result ,such as str() and summary(), rather than > using a data.frame already generated by R. > > A quick test will tell me if knitr behaves differently. > > The results I want to include in the document have already been calculated > and I have them in the cwd as records of each day's R session. They just do > not cleanly paste into the LyX document; the \n seem to be lost
I hope this doesn't discourage you from trying knitr/Sweave, but you could try ctrl+shift+v, or Edit > Paste Special > plain text. That should preserve the line breaks. Scott
