If I understand the question correctly the answer is probably not to type anything at the R command line. A good editor or interface is a better approach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29#Interfaces
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: ted.hard...@wlandres.net > Sent: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:58:09 +0100 (BST) > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Turning off continuation prompt? > > Greetings All. > My apologies for a question whose answer is probably > readily available somewhere (for some interpetation > of "somewhere") ... > > Say I have just typed (from a sheet of paper) several > lines into the R command-line, and what I see is: > >> chisq.test(matrix(c(3,6,3,4,4, > + 4,1,4,6,5, > + 2,7,4,2,5, > + 8,2,4,4,2, > + 3,4,5,4,4),ncol=5)) > > Later, I find that would like to re-input the data part > of this command ("matrix(c(...)...)"). Without the "+" > continuation prompts, it would be easy to do this by > copy&paste with the mouse in one operation. With the "+" > marks there, I have to do the copy&paste for each separate line. > > So is there a way to suppress the output of the "+" at the > beginning of each continuation line? > > (The above is one of the smaller examples of this situation; > sometimes I have wished to do this for commands extending over, > say, 15-20 lines). > > With thanks, > Ted. > > ------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> > Date: 30-Jul-2012 Time: 09:58:02 > This message was sent by 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. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! ______________________________________________ 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.