[R] load function to R GUI

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jun 15 20:57:20 CEST 2004


On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Evgueni Parilov wrote:

> Yep, shame on me. But on the other hand, this is a good example of a 
> vague menu
> item. I think that instead of "Source R code...", it should be "Load 
> source R code..."
> unless it can do more than just loading a source from R file.

It is `source' not `load', as you will find if you actually read the R 
documentation.  DO do as the posting guide asks before casting aspersions 
on the work of others!

> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> >The first menu item on the `File' menu is called `Source R code' and calls
> >source().  Did you look through the menus?  If not, it would be worth
> >familiarizing yourself with them.
> >
> >On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Evgueni Parilov wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Thanks!
> >>That was exactly what I wanted.
> >>Evgueni
> >>
> >>
> >>Ko-Kang Kevin Wang wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Hi all!
> >>>>I looked through the manual and FAQ, and did not find any
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>information
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>on how to load functions from files (with .R extension) to run them
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>in
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>R GUI under Windows. The only way I know is to create and edit a
> >>>>function inside GUI. But what if I want to edit it in Emacs (do not
> >>>>want to use ESS) and then load into GUI?
> >>>>Any suggestions...
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Do you mean ?source?
> >>>
> >>>i.e. save your function in, say, foo.R then use the source() function
> >>>to get it in.
> >>>
> >>>HTH
> >>>
> >>>Kevin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 

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