Hi Martin, Why not just do the following? In your editor after you create the script save it to a file, say "foo.R". Then in your R session you give the command > source("foo.R")
HTH, Eric On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:33 AM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Obvious suggestion: use a more capable IDE instead of Textmate2 with > copy/paste. > > RStudio is very popular now, but there are many others . Search on e.g. "R > IDE For MAC" to see some alternatives. > > Cheers, > Bert > > > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and > sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> > wrote: > > > This sounds like a problem with your editor or the OS clipboard support > > rather than R. You might get a response here, but R-sig-mac seems more > > appropriate to me for such discussion. > > -- > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > > > On February 3, 2018 4:23:54 PM PST, Martin Batholdy via R-help < > > r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > > >Dear R-users, > > > > > >This question might not be restricted to R, but I hope that some might > > >have experienced similar problems and could help me. > > > > > >When using R, I usually work with a text-editor (textmate2) in which I > > >prepare the script. > > >To execute code, I then copy and paste it to an R-session running in > > >the terminal/shell (on Mac OS). > > > > > >Unfortunately, when pasting too much code into the terminal (e.g. 60 > > >lines), some characters are occasionally and randomly scrambled or > > >missing. > > >For example "col <- ifelse(..." turns into "col < col < cse(…". > > > > > >This happens very randomly, is difficult to predict, and while it only > > >affects a hand full of characters in total, it leads to a lot of errors > > >in the code execution along the way. > > >Apparently, it has to do with the buffer size and paste-speed of the > > >terminal. > > > > > >So far, I could not find any solution to the problem. > > > > > >Therefore, I wanted to ask; > > >Do others here use a similar workflow (i.e. having a text-editor for > > >coding and using copy/paste to the terminal for code execution) and > > >encountered similar problems with big chunks of code in the clipboard? > > >Are there any solutions for this problem, specifically for running R > > >over the shell? > > > > > >Thank you very much! > > > > > >______________________________________________ > > >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > >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. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.