[R] How to source a part of the file

[jim holtman]

You can do:

source(readLines(yourFile)[10:20])   # lines 10-20 of the file

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Paul Y. Peng <pywpeng at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a text file of R commands. Some times I only want to run a few lines
> of the R commands in an existing R session and wonder whether there is a
> simple way to do this.
>
> To run a few lines in a new session of R, I could use sed to pick up the
> lines from the file and pipe them into R.
>
> source() does not allow me to specify which lines to be included/excluded.
> Is there any function that is similar to source() but allows me to specify
> lines included/excluded?
>
> Paul.
>
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Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

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