R help - Sep 2007 - Cutting & pasting help examples into script window

Hi All,

When I cut & paste help file examples into a script window, about half
the time it pastes as a single long line. 

The steps I follow are:

1. Open a help file e.g. ?data.frame.
2. Select the examples at the bottom.
3. Choose File: Copy.
4. Return to the console.
5. Choose File: New script.
6. Choose File: Paste or do CTRL-V. The examples frequently paste as a
single long line. 

I came across this in 2.6.0 beta on Windows XP & thought it was related
to the cut/paste changes in that version. I went back to 2.5.1 and at
first it worked fine, verifying my suspicion that it was a 2.6.0
problem. I double-checked my steps before posting, and to my surprise
found that in both versions this problem is intermittent.

I thought it might be a menu vs. keyboard CTRL-V difference, but found
it happens with both, and in both versions. I have also fiddled with
sizing or moving the Help window but that doesn't seem to be related. I
did discover that may be a problem on the paste side of things, as so
far it *always* pastes into Notepad correctly.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bob

P.S. What would really be slick would be to select the example in Help,
right-click and choose Run Line or Selection. Perhaps in version 2.7.
;-) .

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On Thursday 20 September 2007 15:08:45 Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
MR > Hi All,
MR >
MR > When I cut & paste help file examples into a script window, about
half
MR > the time it pastes as a single long line.
MR >
MR > Any ideas?
MR >
MR > Thanks,
MR > Bob
MR >
MR > P.S. What would really be slick would be to select the example in Help,
MR > right-click and choose Run Line or Selection. Perhaps in version 2.7.
MR > ;-) .

What I do not understand is why you not just type example(yourcommand)?

Stefan

Does this look like a bug? If so, is there a different way to report it?
Thanks, Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:17 AM
> To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
> Subject: Re: [R] Cutting & pasting help examples into script window
> 
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 10:01:03AM -0400, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
> wrote:
> > Stephan Grosse replied:
> >
> > >
> > > What I do not understand is why you not just type
> > example(yourcommand)?
> > >
> > > Stefan
> >
> > That's a good question. I want to play around with variations of
the
> > examples rather than run them exactly as they are.
> 
> In Emacs' wonderful ESS mode, you just press 'l' and the line
of
> example code you're on gets sent to R.  You can then 'pick it
up' in
> the R buffer and play with it.  I do that all the time ...
> 
> Dirk
> 
> --
> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.