[R] batch file execution

[Uwe Ligges]

sosman wrote:
> jun xu wrote:
> 
>>I am new to R and really like to get a handle of basics in short period of
>>time. What I am trying to do is get myself a list of must-do's (read in
>>data, batch execution, delimiters, basic modeling commands) in R as in Stata
>>or SAS. I am just wondering how to execute a R batch file in RGui. Suppose I
>>have a script file (like do file in stata, or sas file in SAS) under
>>c:\whatever.R, how can I execute it using commands (not drop down menu) in
>>RGui? In stata, would be something like
> 
> 
> If I am not mistaken the command is:
>  > source("whatever.R")

... or source("c:/whatever.R") if "c:\" is not your current working 
directory.

> 
>> do c:\whatever.do
>> How about in R. I tried the "R CMD BATCH('h:/whatever.R'), but it didn't
>>work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


R CMD BATCH has to be executed from the Windows shell (looks like you 
are running this OS) rather than from within R with the Syntax (if 
called from c:\ and R is in your PATH):
R CMD BATCH whatever.R

Uwe Ligges



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