On 03/06/2013 14:48, peter dalgaard wrote:
On Jun 3, 2013, at 15:22 , Sarah Goslee wrote:
Pasting tabs into the console works for me on linux, which suggests
that you need to provide more information about your OS and all the
other usual things.
Which console and which Linux?
Anyways, the thing that usually gets in the way is tab-completion. If you
expect pasting to work exactly as if the same characters were typed at the
keyboard, you can't really expect that TAB will not try to autocomplete
commands and filenames. I don't know whether there's a way to temporarily
disable completion.
There are lots of consoles and completion mechanisms. But on RGui (at
least this seems to be Windows), this is controlled by the environment
variable R_COMPLETION and that can be set during a session. Its help says
‘R_COMPLETION’: Optional. If set to ‘FALSE’, command-line
completion is not used. (Not used by Mac OS GUI.)
and ??completion gets you there.
-pf
Sarah
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Dear R-help Members,
I have noticed that when pasting text with "tab" in it to the R console it
eliminates the tab. Whereas, when pasted into the R Editor, the tab is
preserved.
For example, pasting this:
"1997 7680"
In the R Console will result in:
"19977680"
Is there a way to preserve the tab?
This would allow (for example) to use read.table with a table copied from
website/libre-office/excel such as:
a = read.table( text=
"
1 2
3 4
")
a
I understand I can use readClipboard directly, but I wonder if there is a
way to use it while the text is kept in the R Editor.
With regards,
Tal
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