An interesting thought just came to me when reading this discussion! I
use both R and Latex and have never had the trouble of overlooking error
messages when debugging long Latex code!
Of course this is because when compiling a latex document, a summary of
the compilation process is provided at the end! If any errors occurred,
they will be mentioned in the summary.
Maybe R could provide the same summary as an optional part of the
source() command!?
Cheers,
Sander.
Gavin Simpson wrote:
Jan T. Kim wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:47:05PM +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote:
Manuel Morales wrote:
Hello list.
I'm using R from the gnome-terminal in Fedora. My preference is to
write
programs in VIM, and then source the file from R, or copy and paste the
lines into the console. I'm wondering if there is a way to increase the
"paste buffer" as an alternative to "sourcing" large analyses. As was
mentioned in a recent thread on Linux GUI's, I find that if I paste
in a
large amount of text, the lines end up getting cut off at some point. I
wonder if this is an R restriction, because it seems like I am able to
paste substantially more text in other console-based programs. Is there
any way to increase the amount of text that I can paste into an R
session?
Thanks!
Manuel
Manuel,
Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "lines end up getting cut off
at some point" so correct me if I got it wrong, but I assume you mean
that after a certain number of lines entered you can no longer scroll
back up and view the earlier lines?
I think that this is not an issue of the scroll buffer, but of buffers
internal to the terminal program or the shell, which are designed to hold
keyboard input and which can be overwhelmed by the rate of input when
large text selections are pasted in, as this appears as though thousands
of keys had been typed almost instantaneously from their view, so to
speak.
I did say I was guessing :-)
For these reasons, I generally strongly recommend against pasting into
terminals.
Thanks for this Jan. I haven't noticed this myself but then again I hate
copy/paste and rarely use R outside emacs/ess these days.
In R, use the source() instead... ;-)
Agreed. source("filename", echo = TRUE) will sort of replicate the
behaviour the original poster would get if they like to see the commands
printed among the results. But if he is pasting in that much data,
Manuel will still have to increase the buffer on the terminal,
especially if he is using one of the defaults in FC3 as the output will
quickly get lost.
Best regards, Jan
All the best,
Gav
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