[R] Problem sourcing file

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-05-27 3:25 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> The source function is quite convenient for invoking a set of R commands that have already been debugged. It is pretty worthless for troubleshooting. You need to step through those commands one at a time, then do it again, to see which command triggers this error.

source() is fine for troubleshooting:  just use the echo=TRUE option, 
and you'll see when it fails.  In 2.15.0-patched, it can even report the 
line of the source file that caused the problem.

Reza was bitten by a bug in 2.14.0, that's all.

Duncan Murdoch


> My response to the last version of this query stands... what is in "~/Documents/myFile.R"?
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> Reza Salimi-Khorshidi<reza at fmrib.ox.ac.uk>  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have the exact same problem in R 2.14.0, which does not seem to be
>> due to
>> using the quotation mark. When I say
>> source("~/Documents/myFile.R")
>> for the first time (after I start R), it works fine, but when I run it
>> for
>> a second time (even when I empty the workspace and rerun every thing,
>> just
>> like the first time), it returns the exact same error, i.e.,
>>
>> Error in srcfilecopy(filename, lines, file.info(filename)[1, "mtime"])
>> :
>>   unused argument(s) (file.info(filename)[1, "mtime"])
>>
>> Can you please help?
>> Cheers
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