Tony Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just for fun (and actually because I would use it too) I wrote a
> version of the "paste" menu command that assumes the clipboard
> contains a transcript, and just pastes the commands from it into
> the R console window (Windows GUI only).
>
> So, if something like this:
>
> > foo <-
> + 33
> > foo * 3
> [1] 99
> > foo
> [1] 33
>
> is on the clipboard, then the "paste commands" menu command will just paste
>
> foo <-
> 33
> foo * 3
> foo
>
> into the console window. (Resulting in this case in the original contents
> of the clipboard being reproduced in the console window.)
>
> Is anyone interested in having this functionality in R?
>
> If there's enough interest in this to incorporate it into R, I'll package it
> up as a patch (I did it in R 1.8.1). (BTW, I only implemented it for the
> Windows GUI, but it was pretty simple, so I'm sure if there's much
> interest someone could easily port it to other GUIs).
A similar item exists in ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics): "M-x
ess-clean-transcript" or thereabouts. Much loved by those who know it
is there.
A version that works on the contents of a Tk text widget might not be
a half bad idea to have.
-p
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