Dear all, Hope this is the right place to post this message! I keep getting the following whenever I copy and paste functions/code into my R session on my linux box A simple example... this is part of what I want to copy and paste pscores.thresholds <- c(0.0001,0.0005,0.001,0.005,0.01, 0.05) for (i in 1:length(pscores.thresholds)) { x.pscores <- names(x1[x1 <= pscores.thresholds[i]]) y.pscores <- names(y1[y1 <= pscores.thresholds[i]]) # Get the fold changes for those probe names that pass the pscore filter x.fc <- x2[x.pscores] y.fc <- y2[y.pscores] } this is what happens in R when I do.. > pscores.thresholds <- c(0.0001,0.0005,0.001,0.005,0.01, 0.05) > for (i in 1:length(pscores.thresholds)) { + x.pscores <- names(x1[x1 <= pscores.thresholds[i]]) + y.pscores <- names(y1[y1 <= pscores.thresholds[i]]) + .RData .Rhistory random_txt_file + # Get the fold changes for those probe names that pass the pscore filter + .RData .Rhistory random_txt_file + x.fc <- x2[x.pscores] + .RData .Rhistory random_txt_file + y.fc <- y2[y.pscores] + } Each line becomes interspersed with a listing of the files in the current directory. Now this doesn't seem to have any adverse effects, unless I do not have any files in the current directory except my .RData and .Rhistory. When this happens, R encounters and error because it precedes each line with .R > pscores.thresholds <- c(0.0001,0.0005,0.001,0.005,0.01, 0.05) > for (i in 1:length(pscores.thresholds)) { + .R x.pscores <- names(x1[x1 <= pscores.thresholds[i]]) Error: syntax error > .R y.pscores <- names(y1[y1 <= pscores.thresholds[i]]) Error: syntax error > .R# Get the fold changes for those probe names that pass the pscore filter Error: Object ".R" not found and so on the only work around I have found for this is to place a random text file in the working directory and this doesn't appear to cause any problems, however I just wondered whether anyone out there had any better suggestions. Many thanks in advance claire -------------------------------------------------------- This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of th... {{dropped}}

> Each line becomes interspersed with a listing of the files in the > current directory. Now this doesn't seem to have any adverse effects, > unless I do not have any files in the current directory except my .RData > and .Rhistory. When this happens, R encounters and error because it > precedes each line with .R While not able to offer any useful advice, I can say that I was seeing this the other day. I'm not sure exactly which version of R that was but it isn't happening to me now so I suspect it is something that is fixed in 1.7.1.