I've written a simple script that does some surveillance analysis on daily counts of walk-in clinic visits, for our county health department. (Actually, Michael Hohle's surveillance package does all the work; I just customized it a little to work with the way our data are recorded.) The output consists of a graph and a little table.
My colleague will run it once in a while, on continuously updated data. She knows nothing about R, at least not yet. I want to make it as simple as possible. Rather than have her open R and type source("filename"), I want to be able to put an icon on her WinXP desktop, so that when she double-clicks it, R will open, run the script, and up pops the graph.
I've been trying to learn about R CMD BATCH, playing with the dialogue boxes for WinXP desktop shortcuts, etc, but no luck so far. I guess I don't know enough about Windows.
Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks.
--Chris Ryan
run R script automatically by double-clicking WinXP desktop icon
4 messages · Cedrick Johnson, Christopher W. Ryan, Franzini, Gabriele [Nervianoms]
Here's something I use (in a batch file): Rterm --no-restore --file=EveningStartup.r Change EveningStartup.r to your particular file. When you create the shortcut, make sure to set the working directory to where your R script is located. Then in your file, you could have the graphs write out to a png file in a specified directory. hth c
cryan at binghamton.edu wrote:
I've written a simple script that does some surveillance analysis on daily counts of walk-in clinic visits, for our county health department. (Actually, Michael Hohle's surveillance package does all the work; I just customized it a little to work with the way our data are recorded.) The output consists of a graph and a little table.
My colleague will run it once in a while, on continuously updated data. She knows nothing about R, at least not yet. I want to make it as simple as possible. Rather than have her open R and type source("filename"), I want to be able to put an icon on her WinXP desktop, so that when she double-clicks it, R will open, run the script, and up pops the graph.
I've been trying to learn about R CMD BATCH, playing with the dialogue boxes for WinXP desktop shortcuts, etc, but no luck so far. I guess I don't know enough about Windows.
Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks.
--Chris Ryan
______________________________________________ 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.
that helps, thanks. I can put a final line in my batch file that opens a viewer for the png graph. I was hoping to find a way to do make it run in the Rgui (picky, I know.) My graph is clearer in the default graph device that pops up in the Rgui; it's blurry in the Windows viewer for png files. I should probably play around with the resolution in R's png device. Or maybe it's a function of the viewer I'm stuck using. Thanks. --Chris ---- Original message ----
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:41:50 -0400 From: Cedrick Johnson <cedrick at cedrickjohnson.com> Subject: Re: [R] run R script automatically by double-clicking WinXP desktop icon To: cryan at binghamton.edu Cc: r-help at r-project.org Here's something I use (in a batch file): Rterm --no-restore --file=EveningStartup.r Change EveningStartup.r to your particular file. When you create the shortcut, make sure to set the working directory to where your R script is located. Then in your file, you could have the graphs write out to a png file in a specified directory. hth c cryan at binghamton.edu wrote:
I've written a simple script that does some surveillance analysis on daily counts of walk-in clinic visits, for our county health department. (Actually, Michael Hohle's surveillance package does all the work; I just customized it a little to work with the way our data are recorded.) The output consists of a graph and a little table.
My colleague will run it once in a while, on continuously updated data. She knows nothing about R, at least not yet. I want to make it as simple as possible. Rather than have her open R and type source("filename"), I want to be able to put an icon on her WinXP desktop, so that when she double-clicks it, R will open, run the script, and up pops the graph.
I've been trying to learn about R CMD BATCH, playing with the dialogue boxes for WinXP desktop shortcuts, etc, but no luck so far. I guess I don't know enough about Windows.
Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks.
--Chris Ryan
______________________________________________ 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.
Hello Chris, I had the same problem, and I ended up driving R Gui through an Autoit script, see http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ Regards, Gabriele Franzini -----Original Message----- From: cryan at binghamton.edu [mailto:cryan at binghamton.edu] Sent: 22 September 2009 19:37 To: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] run R script automatically by double-clicking WinXP desktopicon that helps, thanks. I can put a final line in my batch file that opens a viewer for the png graph. I was hoping to find a way to do make it run in the Rgui (picky, I know.) My graph is clearer in the default graph device that pops up in the Rgui; it's blurry in the Windows viewer for png files. I should probably play around with the resolution in R's png device. Or maybe it's a function of the viewer I'm stuck using. Thanks. --Chris ---- Original message ----
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:41:50 -0400 From: Cedrick Johnson <cedrick at cedrickjohnson.com> Subject: Re: [R] run R script automatically by double-clicking WinXP desktop icon To: cryan at binghamton.edu Cc: r-help at r-project.org Here's something I use (in a batch file): Rterm --no-restore --file=EveningStartup.r Change EveningStartup.r to your particular file. When you create the shortcut, make sure to set the working directory to where your R script
is located. Then in your file, you could have the graphs write out to a
png file in a specified directory. hth c cryan at binghamton.edu wrote:
I've written a simple script that does some surveillance analysis on
daily counts of walk-in clinic visits, for our county health department. (Actually, Michael Hohle's surveillance package does all the work; I just customized it a little to work with the way our data are recorded.) The output consists of a graph and a little table.
My colleague will run it once in a while, on continuously updated
data. She knows nothing about R, at least not yet. I want to make it as
simple as possible. Rather than have her open R and type
source("filename"), I want to be able to put an icon on her WinXP
desktop, so that when she double-clicks it, R will open, run the script,
and up pops the graph.
I've been trying to learn about R CMD BATCH, playing with the
dialogue boxes for WinXP desktop shortcuts, etc, but no luck so far. I guess I don't know enough about Windows.
Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks. --Chris Ryan
______________________________________________ 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.