[R] Windows - **Paste commands only** issue

[Robert Baer]

In following a thread on this mailing list, I encounter an apparent issue 
with **Edit | Paste commands only** in the Windows R-GUI.

Reproducible steps:

Go to (using IE?):
http://www.r-bloggers.com/select-operations-on-r-data-frames/

Find the section entitled 'Duplicate row names'
Copy the following lines from the web page
< a = matrix(1:18, nrow=6, ncol=3)
< rownames(a) <- c('a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b')
< colnames(a) <- c('foo', 'bar', 'bat')
< a

Open R-GUI 2.14.2 under Windows 7
Using R-GUI menu, Choose **Edit | Paste Commands Only**

Result:  Nothing appears on the console.
Hit Edit | Paste or ctrl-v and verify that the code is contained on the 
clipboard as expected

[Note: upon pasting into MSWord the clipboard contents are, by default, 
pasted as "HTML" not "unformatted" text]

Is this a bug or just unsupported use of the command?

Rob

> R.Version()
$platform
[1] "i386-pc-mingw32"

$arch
[1] "i386"

$os
[1] "mingw32"

$system
[1] "i386, mingw32"

$status
[1] ""

$major
[1] "2"

$minor
[1] "14.2"

$year
[1] "2012"

$month
[1] "02"

$day
[1] "29"

$`svn rev`
[1] "58522"

$language
[1] "R"

$version.string
[1] "R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29)"


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