[R] command line fails

[Daniel Nordlund]

On 2/2/2018 4:52 AM, Michael Ashton wrote:
> Hi - Think this is quick help. Not sure how to trap what is causing my simple script to run fine in R, but fail immediately when called from rscript. I can put all sorts of traps in the script itself, but when called from the command line the r window simply flashes and closes.
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> There's probably a way to find out why rscript is failing, but I don't know it and can't seem to find it online. To be clear, I'm not really trying to save the OUTPUT of the file...it never even executes as far as I can tell. I'm calling it with C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\Rscript.exe "P:\Investments\Trading Tools\RV Tools\myfile.r" And again, it executes perfectly if I open the GUI first and then run it within R.
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> Thanks for the help!
> 
> Mike
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Mike,

on Windows, anytime you send a path that contains a space to the command 
line it needs to be enclosed in double quotes.  Try a call like

"C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.3/bin/Rscript.exe" "P:/Investments/Trading 
Tools/RV Tools/myfile.r"

I don't know how rscript handles the '\' character (i.e. as an escape or 
not) so I changed the '\' to '/' just to be safe.  And note, the program 
pathname and the file being passed need to be quoted separately.


Hope this helps,

Dan

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Daniel Nordlund
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