[R] Problem w/ source

Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch at pair.com
Thu Jul 24 17:25:16 CEST 2003


On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:42:05 -0400, Peter Muhlberger
<peterm at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote :

>I'm trying to use the source command to run commands from a file.  For
>instance:  source("do.R"), where do.R is a file in the same directory in
>which I am running R.
>
>The contents of do.R are:
>
>ls()
>print("hello")
>sum(y1)
>mean(y1)
>
>
>After  source("do.R"), all I see is:
>
>> source("do.R")
>[1] "hello"
>
>
>I'm using the X11 version of R for Mac OS X (downloadable binary).  Does
>anyone know how to get source to work?

You probably want 

source("do.R", echo = TRUE)

or maybe not; see ?source.

Duncan Murdoch




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