Feature request: strip prompt from input about reprex HOT 9 CLOSED

This doesn't come up for me, I think, because I'm always composing in an editor and would copy prompt-free code from there.

But I see what you mean! I can't think of any legitimate reason to have leading prompts in reprex() input so I suppose I can automatically strip. I'll do this ... only question is whether to do for clipboard input only or just across the board.

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Because sometimes I too am forced to work with "reprex" code other people have posted somewhere that includes the prompts.

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Then maybe an optional parameter strip_prompt = NULL that can accept a string? For me the use cases probably involve emailing students or generating code to be inserted into non-markdown slides. These are certainly edge cases.

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Note to self: maybe I should trigger reading from clipboard via default behaviour of the input argument (instead of when both x and input are NULL). Then I could enact prompt stripping there for all non-expression input?

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For me the use cases probably involve emailing students or generating code to be inserted into non-markdown slides. These are certainly edge cases.

Now here you seem to be talking about output, not handling of input. Do you want to add the prompt to your reprex() output? Because I can show you how to do that.

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If you want to make it look like an R transcript, you can override the default chunk options like so:

This input:

reprex({
  x <- 1:4
  y <- 2:5
  x + y
}, opts_chunk = list(comment = NA, prompt = TRUE))

gives this output:

> x <- 1:4
> y <- 2:5
> x + y
[1] 3 5 7 9

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Sorry for the confusion, that's not what I mean: I am indeed talking about handling of input. What I mean is that I am sometimes working interactively in the command window and need to just copy the last few lines I executed. This sometimes happens when emailing a student (e.g. to make sure a code snippet actually executes as expected before sending)...

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OK got it.

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Thanks, works great!

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