Does somebody need a lollipop?  By the way, I entered this whole sentence
using my mouse without once touching the keyboard.

Seriously, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question.

Have a great day,

Wade

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

>
> On 5/02/2010, at 1:53 PM, Wade Wall wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there a function to open a script file from the command line?  I have
> > several students who are Mac users and when they open up a script file it
> > does not send commands to the console, and unfortunately I don't know how
> to
> > solve this problem since I am not a Mac user.
> >
> > I have looked over the FAQ for Mac users, but didn't see a reference to
> the
> > problem.
> >
> > I think they are both using OS X.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
>
>
> It's not clear to me what you are actually asking, since you (like 99.999%
> of people in the world, unfortunately) use the utterly stupid terminology
> ``open'', that the utterly stupid point-and-click interfaces to which
> everyone
> except me seems to be addicted, foists upon us.  The word ``open'' is
> ambiguous.
>
> The script file contains code (R code).  ``Opening'' the file could mean
> *editing* that code (with some text editor).  But since you talk about
> ``sending the commands to the console'' I suspect that by ``opening'' you
> mean persuading R to execute the commands contained in the script.
>
> In which case see ?source.
>
> One can also ``send commands to the console'' via copy-and-paste.
>
>        cheers,
>
>                Rolf Turner
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