[R] Problem in using BATCH command

[Yihui Xie]

BATCH is not an R object, and it is not for use in R console. As
Henrik mentioned, you should use it in the command line. Open a
terminal window/command window (depending on your OS), and type "R CMD
BATCH ..." there. If you are using Windows, cd to the 'bin' directory
of R first (or put the 'bin' directory into your environment variable
'PATH').

Regards,
Yihui
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Manuj Sharma <smanuj1970 at yahoo.in> wrote:
> I tried to use BATCH command to run an input file (a simple text file) which contained a few R commands.
>
> I first saw the BATCH help page using
>      > ?BATCH
>
> The help page mentioned the Usage as:
> Batch Execution of RR CMD BATCH [options] infile [outfile]
>
> The Detailed section mentioned the following:
>
> Use R CMD BATCH --help to be reminded of the usage.
>
> My input file is called batchchk, which contains the following R commands:
> ls()
> ox <- read.table("rev_full_idle.out", header=TRUE)
> ov <- ox$Times
> length(ov)
> summary(ov)
>
> I loaded the utils library (probably it is loaded by default):
>   > library(utils)
>
> I ran the following commands and got the indicated errors:
>
>   > BATCH batchchk
>     Error: unexpected symbol in "BATCH batchchk"
>
>   > R CMD BATCH batchchk
>     Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>   > R CMD BATCH --help
>     Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>   > BATCH --help
>     Error: object 'BATCH' not found
>
> Can somebody please point out where I am going wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Manuj
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