[R] linux batch question

[markleeds at verizon.net]

  thanks Rolf. Yes,  I meant temp.R. I was going to use test.R but then 
I realized that I already had a program named that. I think the R gods 
are
really hating me !!!!!!! it's a very odd thing. I'll grep the file 
because maybe the output is in there somewhere and i'm missing it ?



On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at  5:01 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:

> On 30/10/2008, at 10:46 AM, markleeds at verizon.net wrote:
>
>> I usually just run my R programs at the R command prompt but for my
>> latest one I want to save any output that gets written to the  screen 
>> so
>> I am
>> trying to use R CMD BATCH and send the output to an output file. I
>> realize I could use sink at the prompt but I'd rather try to do it 
>> this
>> way
>> because I know that I used to do this in S+.
>>
>> So, I wrote a simple one line program called test.R which is below.
>>
>> print("test of batch\n")
>
> 	Uh, you don't ack-chewally want that ``\n'' in there with
> 	a print() statement.  (You'd want it with a cat() statement.)
>>
>> Then I did
>>
>> R CMD BATCH temp.R temp.out
>
> 	Did you mean ``test.R'' here, rather than ``temp.R''?
> 	If not, what's in ``temp.R''?
>>
>> temp.out which is shown below then ends up containing all my  loading 
>> up
>> messages  and a proc.time statement at the very bottom  but not the
>> print statement itself ? Does someone know what I'm doing wrong. 
>> I've
>> looked around but I can't find anything that answers my question. My
>> sessionInfo() is at ther very bottom of this email. Thanks.
>
> 	<snip>
>
> 	Well, it works for *me*!
>
> 	I made a file temp.R containing the line ``print("test of batch")
> 	and then did:
>
> 	R CMD BATCH temp.R temp.out
>
> 	The resulting file temp.out contained the ``test of batch'' line
> 	as expected/required.
>
> 	No problema.
>
> 	Clearly the R gods don't like you. :-)
>
> 		cheers,
>
> 			Rolf
>
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