[R] Rank Amateur Question

[Robert Baer]

You probably want from windows GUI:

source("test.R")
To read help to learn about this command type:
?source
at the command prompt. (Similar pattern get help on other commands too - 
its an important R skill/habit).

If your are going to do a lot of script development, I would highly 
recommend you take a look at RStudio, 
http://www.rstudio.com/ide/download/ which is a front end for R that 
greatly streamlines script development and use.

Rob


On 5/28/2013 1:07 PM, Mark Russell wrote:
> Greetings,
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> I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC running Microsoft 7 Home Edition
> via Rgui. I have quite a bit of programming experience, though not as a
> professional programmer. I am a Measurement and Assessment professional
> (standardized testing). I would like to be able to write R scripts, and call
> them from the command line in Rgui. After two attempts, I receive the
> following error messages
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>> R CMD BATCH test.R
> Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
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>> Rscript test.R
> Error: unexpected symbol in "Rscript test.R"
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> These commands were taken directly from the R documents found on the
> R-project website.
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> Clearly, I am doing something wrong. The script test.R resides in the R
> directory, and includes
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> 24 + 6
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> and nothing more. The path to test.R is C:\Program Files\R\test.R
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> Any assistance would be appreciated.
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> Mark Russell, MEd MESA
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> Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.
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Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology
Kirksille College of Osteopathic Medicine
A. T. Still University of Health Sciences
Kirksville, MO 63501 USA