[rkward-users] Command line limit

Birk Diedenhofen mail at birkdiedenhofen.de
Mon May 21 15:17:47 UTC 2012


 Hi!

I just found out that the length of a command line entered into the R console is
limited to 4096 characters. In fact, the 4096th character is replaced by a line
break. Thus, one character is missing in your code, which can cause a lot of
strange errors!

I think it would be great if rkward could avoid such problems. This could be
achieved, for example, by automatically adding a line break before the 4096th
character (instead of replacing it) whenever the command line limit is exceeded.

The problem was also addressed here with a request to GUI developers:
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Command-line-length-limits-in-R-td912367.html

Regards
Birk




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