[R] Runnin R prorams from a command line

[John Fox]

Dear Ari,

At 12:58 PM 9/29/2002 -0400, Ari J Russo wrote:
>Hello, I am a new R user, using version 1.5.1.  I am
>attempting to run R programs from a dos command line
>(in win2000) and am having problems. My goal is to
>be able to use R from batch scripts in both windows
>and also in Linux eventually later.
>
>When I first ran "rcmd BATCH --help" it said that
>perl was not found.  after installing perl and
>running again, I received the following error:
>
>C:\Program Files\R\rw1051\bin>rcmd BATCH -h
>Can't locate R/Utils.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>C:\PROGRA~1\R\rw1051\share\per
>C:/ActivePerl/Perl/lib C:/ActivePerl/Perl/site/lib
>.) at C:\PROGRA~1\R\rw1051/
>n/BATCH line 22.
>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>C:\PROGRA~1\R\rw1051/bin/BATCH line 22.

The program to use is rterm.exe, not rcmd.exe. To run rterm with file 
input, enter
         Rterm.exe --no-restore --no-save < input-file > output-file
at the DOS prompt (where, of course, input-file and output-file represent 
the files with your input and to hold your output). For more information, 
see the README and README.Rterm files in the main R directory.

I hope that this helps,
  John

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