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Rank Amateur Question
5 messages · Mark Russell, Pascal Oettli, Berend Hasselman +2 more
Hi, I do not use R for Windows. But I would say that you have to run 'Rscript.exe' in a "CMD" prompt, if I am not mistaken. Not in 'Rgui'. In 'Rgui', use 'source'. Hope this helps, Pascal
On 05/29/2013 03:07 AM, Mark Russell wrote:
Greetings, I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC running Microsoft 7 Home Edition via Rgui. I have quite a bit of programming experience, though not as a professional programmer. I am a Measurement and Assessment professional (standardized testing). I would like to be able to write R scripts, and call them from the command line in Rgui. After two attempts, I receive the following error messages
R CMD BATCH test.R
Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
Rscript test.R
Error: unexpected symbol in "Rscript test.R" These commands were taken directly from the R documents found on the R-project website. Clearly, I am doing something wrong. The script test.R resides in the R directory, and includes 24 + 6 and nothing more. The path to test.R is C:\Program Files\R\test.R Any assistance would be appreciated. Mark Russell, MEd MESA Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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On 28-05-2013, at 20:07, "Mark Russell" <gibsonsdad at cox.net> wrote:
Greetings, I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC running Microsoft 7 Home Edition via Rgui. I have quite a bit of programming experience, though not as a professional programmer. I am a Measurement and Assessment professional (standardized testing). I would like to be able to write R scripts, and call them from the command line in Rgui. After two attempts, I receive the following error messages
R CMD BATCH test.R
Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
Rscript test.R
Error: unexpected symbol in "Rscript test.R" These commands were taken directly from the R documents found on the R-project website. Clearly, I am doing something wrong. The script test.R resides in the R directory, and includes 24 + 6 and nothing more. The path to test.R is C:\Program Files\R\test.R Any assistance would be appreciated.
R CMD ? and Rscript are not run from within R itself. You probably got this from section B1 of the An Introduction to R manual. You run these commands in a Windows console window. In an interactive R session you use source(??.). ?source There is no need to put your scripts in the same directory where R is installed. Put them somewhere in your user space. Read the introductory manual starting from the first page:-) Berend
You probably want from windows GUI:
source("test.R")
To read help to learn about this command type:
?source
at the command prompt. (Similar pattern get help on other commands too -
its an important R skill/habit).
If your are going to do a lot of script development, I would highly
recommend you take a look at RStudio,
http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/ which is a front end for R that
greatly streamlines script development and use.
Rob
On 5/28/2013 1:07 PM, Mark Russell wrote:
Greetings, I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC running Microsoft 7 Home Edition via Rgui. I have quite a bit of programming experience, though not as a professional programmer. I am a Measurement and Assessment professional (standardized testing). I would like to be able to write R scripts, and call them from the command line in Rgui. After two attempts, I receive the following error messages
R CMD BATCH test.R
Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
Rscript test.R
Error: unexpected symbol in "Rscript test.R" These commands were taken directly from the R documents found on the R-project website. Clearly, I am doing something wrong. The script test.R resides in the R directory, and includes 24 + 6 and nothing more. The path to test.R is C:\Program Files\R\test.R Any assistance would be appreciated. Mark Russell, MEd MESA Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology Kirksille College of Osteopathic Medicine A. T. Still University of Health Sciences Kirksville, MO 63501 USA
Second the RStudio but also suggest Tinn-R for a beginner as the more extenseve code highlighting can be very useful. John Kane Kingston ON Canada
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From: rbaer at atsu.edu
Sent: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:17:47 -0500
To: gibsonsdad at cox.net
Subject: Re: [R] Rank Amateur Question
You probably want from windows GUI:
source("test.R")
To read help to learn about this command type:
?source
at the command prompt. (Similar pattern get help on other commands too -
its an important R skill/habit).
If your are going to do a lot of script development, I would highly
recommend you take a look at RStudio,
http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/ which is a front end for R that
greatly streamlines script development and use.
Rob
On 5/28/2013 1:07 PM, Mark Russell wrote:
Greetings, I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC running Microsoft 7 Home Edition via Rgui. I have quite a bit of programming experience, though not as a professional programmer. I am a Measurement and Assessment professional (standardized testing). I would like to be able to write R scripts, and call them from the command line in Rgui. After two attempts, I receive the following error messages
R CMD BATCH test.R
Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
Rscript test.R
Error: unexpected symbol in "Rscript test.R" These commands were taken directly from the R documents found on the R-project website. Clearly, I am doing something wrong. The script test.R resides in the R directory, and includes 24 + 6 and nothing more. The path to test.R is C:\Program Files\R\test.R Any assistance would be appreciated. Mark Russell, MEd MESA Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
-- Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology Kirksille College of Osteopathic Medicine A. T. Still University of Health Sciences Kirksville, MO 63501 USA
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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