[R] Pasting a large chunk of R code in terminals

Marc Schwartz
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:43:45 -0000

> On Oct 29, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Victor Tian <tianxu03 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Often times, I would run R in the terminal when the task is computationally
> intensive and a nice-looking UI is less desired.
>
> However, pasting a large chunk of code into the terminal often times ends
> up being messed up. In Python, the same problem would happen, however,
> iPython provides a small functionality called magic word such as %paste
> that can help paste the code neatly into the terminal.
>
> I'm wondering if there's a similar functionality in R.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> *Xu Tian*


Rather than pasting a large amount of code into the terminal, put the code into
a text file (e.g. MyCode.R) and use ?source i your terminal session, to read in
the file to then be parsed and run.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz