[R] batch file output

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Mikkel Grum wrote:

> Thanks. The way I run it, I can determine what version of R to run  
> with which script. Don't know how to do that with R CMD BATCH.

Seems as though something like this (using absolute path to the  
instance of R.exe)  should work:

C:\R\R-2.12.1\bin\R CMD BATCH [options] infile [outfile]

At least if I remember my command line Windows conventions  ... it's  
been a few years.

-- 
David.
>
> Placing options(echo = FALSE) in the infile solves my problem. I got  
> that from the page you linked to.
>
> Mikkel
>
> --- On Tue, 12/28/10, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> From: David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>> Subject: Re: [R] batch file output
>> To: "David Winsemius" <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>> Cc: "Mikkel Grum" <mi2kelgrum at yahoo.com>, r-help at r-project.org
>> Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 8:30 AM
>>
>> On Dec 28, 2010, at 8:27 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 28, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Mikkel Grum wrote:
>>>
>>>> I run a batch file with the following command in
>> Windows XP:
>>>>
>>>> C:\R\R-2.12.1\bin\Rterm.exe --no-save --no-restore
>> <C:\users\me\file.R> C:\users\me\file.out 2>&1
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to get only the output of R in
>> file.out, without getting all the code from file.R too?
>>>
>>> Put a sink(file="C:\users\me\file2.out")
>>
>> Would probably work better to use forward slashes.
>>
>>> in the file.R would be one way but your general
>> strategy looks a bit strange. One does not generally use the
>> interactive version of R for batch execution. See:
>>>
>>> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/utils/html/BATCH.html
>>>
>>> --
>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
>>
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>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT