[R] Missing information in source()

[Daniel Nordlund]

On 11/7/2017 12:01 PM, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:
> Dear R-help,
> 
> I am running a Mac under Sierra, with R version 3.4.2 and RStudio 1.1.383.  When running head () or tail () on an object in a script using source (<script name>) nothing appears in the output file, but if I use these commands in the normal R window the normal output appears.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Tom Backer Johnsen
> University of Bergen
> Norway
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I believe you need to wrap your call to head/tail in a print statement:

print(head(_whatever_))


Hope this is helpful,


Dan



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Daniel Nordlund
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