Missing file to run Rcmd batch on Windows
Regarding Perl, the batchfiles distribution batch files do not use Perl but R's own Rcmd.exe does. Based on comments recently I understand that Perl will be eliminated from the R batch scripts soon but in the meantime if you install Rtools (which is a set of tools that includes perl and is simple to install via its GUI installer similar to R's) from http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ then Rcmd.bat will automatically detect it so you don't have to set a path to Perl. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
Try writing BATCH in upper case. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Brigid Mooney <bkmooney at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to run an R script using Rcmd Batch from the command line on a Windows Vista machine. I am using R version 2.8.1. I installed the batch files 4-3 found at http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles/ and added them to my path. I also had to install the latest version of perl (it's Strawberry perl if that makes a difference) and have added this to my path. Now when I run the command: Rcmd batch TestBatch.R TestOutput.txt from the command line, I get the error: Can't open perl script "C:\Progra~1\R\R-28~1.0\bin\batch": No such file or directory Just for reference, TestBatch.R contains only one line: print("hello world") Does anyone have any idea on what this file is that I might be missing? Or is there some other mistake I'm making in trying to run the a script from the command line. Thanks, -Brigid [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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