[R] Maximum number of pasted 'code' lines?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Tue Oct 14 21:36:38 CEST 2008


On 10/14/2008 2:39 PM, Michael Just wrote:
> Erik, Roger, others:
> 
> Why I use excel: the ability to concatenate and 'drag' formulas. I use it
> because it is what I know. Apparently, excel is frowned upon, what should I
> be using? I don't know how else to create many very similar lines of R code.

I think you're solving the wrong problem.  It's unlikely that you really 
need a 19000 line R script, especially if it's a script that Excel could 
create: it's likely that a loop in R would be much more compact and 
easier to read.

Duncan Murdoch



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