R devel - Jan 2004 - automatic "paste" filter to paste only the commands from a transcript on the clipboard

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).

-- Tony Plate

Tony Plate <tplate@blackmesacapital.com> 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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   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N   
 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907

Yup, I use a version in Emacs -- didn't know about the ESS
version, so I wrote my own... :-(.  I use it all the time and I have
it bound globally to C-x M-w so that I can use it from a buffer of
any mode.  However, it's a little cumbersome to go via Emacs
when pasting from other applications.  That's why I proposed a
version that could work within R.

-- Tony Plate

At Wednesday 06:26 PM 1/14/2004 +0100, Peter Dalgaard
wrote:
>Tony Plate <tplate@blackmesacapital.com> writes:
> > [deleted...]
>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
>
>--
>    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3
>   c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N
>  (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
>~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907