What's the trick to copying selected text from the www.bioconductor.org web page? For example, if I want to copy the block "Citing Bioconductor" info from http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/faq/index.html#Citing%20Bioconductor there doesn't seem to be a way to copy it, or even just the URL to go to that page. If I want to install Bioconductor packages using the R statements on this page http://www.bioconductor.org/download/ there doesn't seem to be a way to copy the statements and paste them into R. The "source" and "biocLite()" statements might as well be a graphic, since I must manually enter them into R. The last two times I've installed BioConductor on a new PC I went to that page and then had to manually type the statements since I could not copy them. How can I copy text from www.bioconductor.org without using Select All and pasting somewhere else before selecting the text I want? Or is this some sort of problem with IE? efg Earl F. Glynn Bioinformatics Stowers Institute

> Or is this some sort of problem with IE? I used FireFox under Linux to copy the text (Edit->copy) and pasted (Edit-> paste) to a text-editor. Saroj Earl F. Glynn wrote: > What's the trick to copying selected text from the www.bioconductor.org web > page? > > For example, if I want to copy the block "Citing Bioconductor" info from > http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/faq/index.html#Citing%20Bioconductor > there doesn't seem to be a way to copy it, or even just the URL to go to > that page. > > If I want to install Bioconductor packages using the R statements on this > page > http://www.bioconductor.org/download/ > there doesn't seem to be a way to copy the statements and paste them into R. > The "source" and "biocLite()" statements might as well be a graphic, since I > must manually enter them into R. The last two times I've installed > BioConductor on a new PC I went to that page and then had to manually type > the statements since I could not copy them. > > How can I copy text from www.bioconductor.org without using Select All and > pasting somewhere else before selecting the text I want? > > Or is this some sort of problem with IE? > > efg > > Earl F. Glynn > Bioinformatics > Stowers Institute > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >

"Earl F. Glynn" <efg at="" stowers-institute.org=""> writes: > What's the trick to copying selected text from the www.bioconductor.org web > page? Unfortunately, the best answer is to use Firefox and not IE. If anyone knows of a proper fix, we would be interested in hearing it, but thus far our efforts have not led anywhere. + seth

For IE, this is a bit of a hack, and not a true fix, but I was able to get the grey box text by placing my mouse cursor on the text a few letters or words before the grey box, then drag across the box to some word just after the box. Paste into your favorite editor, then clean up any leading or trailing cruft. Steven McKinney Statistician Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program British Columbia Cancer Research Centre smckinney at bccrc.ca -----Original Message----- From: bioconductor-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Saroj Mohapatra Sent: Tue 6/27/2006 11:54 AM To: Earl F. Glynn Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [BioC] Copying text from www.bioconductor.org web pages? > Or is this some sort of problem with IE? I used FireFox under Linux to copy the text (Edit->copy) and pasted (Edit-> paste) to a text-editor. Saroj Earl F. Glynn wrote: > What's the trick to copying selected text from the www.bioconductor.org web > page? > > For example, if I want to copy the block "Citing Bioconductor" info from > http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/faq/index.html#Citing%20Bioconductor > there doesn't seem to be a way to copy it, or even just the URL to go to > that page. > > If I want to install Bioconductor packages using the R statements on this > page > http://www.bioconductor.org/download/ > there doesn't seem to be a way to copy the statements and paste them into R. > The "source" and "biocLite()" statements might as well be a graphic, since I > must manually enter them into R. The last two times I've installed > BioConductor on a new PC I went to that page and then had to manually type > the statements since I could not copy them. > > How can I copy text from www.bioconductor.org without using Select All and > pasting somewhere else before selecting the text I want? > > Or is this some sort of problem with IE? > > efg > > Earl F. Glynn > Bioinformatics > Stowers Institute > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >