On Jun 13, 2007, at 7:04 PM, William Revelle wrote: > Dear R Mac users, > > When writing examples for students, I typically use Sweave to > integrate the R code with the output. R code from Sweave > conventionally is preceded by the prompt character (typically ">"). > Although this can be suppressed in Sweave, it seems as if the > conventional style is to include the prompt on every example line. > This leads to a syntax error on every line copied from a Sweave > example directly into R. > > Now my question: > > Is there some option in the Mac R-Gui that I have missed that allows > me to directly paste Sweave output of commands (i.e., including the > prompt) into R without first editing them out in the editor? I think > that this is possible in Windows (but have only been told that by my > students). > > If it is not possible, then what do people think about example code > not including the prompt?
No, but it is on the wishlist http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=misc:wishlist-mac Unfortunately I don't think I'll have time to look into this soon, but patches of R.app implementing this are highly welcome. Cheers, Simon > It makes it easier to cut and paste from > sample text, but makes it harder to spot the code in the sample text. > (For my web based examples I get around this by color coding the R > commands , but I am worrying about pdf examples). > > Thanks for suggestions and help. > > Bill > > > -- > William Revelle http://personality-project.org/revelle.html > Professor http://personality-project.org/personality.html > Department of Psychology http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/ > Northwestern University http://www.northwestern.edu/ > Use R for statistics: http://personality-project.org/r > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
