How to preserve formatting from rstudio when copy/pasting to Word?

Question

New to R, Rstudio, and SO -- my apologies in advance for any faux pas.

I want to reproduce my code in Word 2010 for a homework assignment. The scripts were written in r

Answer 1

Assuming you have internet access

1. Copy and paste to gist.gisthub.com
2. Select 'R' as the language - this should provide colours
3. Hit create (secret or public) gist
4. Copy and paste from the gist to your word processor.

Compared with the notepad++ solution:

• An online backup to your code, with a recording of the time when you clipped it.
• You don't have to install any other software, useful if you're a student using a public computer.