[R] R CMD BATCH: cat does not print

[Barry Rowlingson]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am trying to write my first R script. The code is simply
> 
> cat("Hello!\n")
> 
> However, when I run
> 
> $ R CMD BATCH myscript.R
> 
> I do not see "Hello!" on the console. I am using Fedora 7 (Linux) and R-2.5.1.
> 
> Any ideas?
>

  You shouldn't see it on the console! BATCH writes its output to a file.

  You should find a file called myscript.Rout that does contain the 
'Hello!'.

  Barry