[R] source vs. editor

Sundar Dorai-Raj sundar.dorai-raj at pdf.com
Tue Jun 17 18:57:04 CEST 2003



Anna H. Pryor wrote:
> When I am trying to use the source function to  read in some lines of code, I 
> get an error.  The code is simply a boxplot:
> 
> boxplot(s$fitness2weightedSum,s$OffNader10xWeightweightedSum,s$OffNader5xWeightweightedSum,main="weightedSum",col=8)
> axis(1,at=seq(1,3,by=1),las=3,labels=c("fitness2","OffNader10xWeight","OffNader5xWeight))
> 
> The error I get is: Error in parse(file,n,text,prompt)
> 
> However, when I simply copy it in from my editor into R it works just fine.  
> Is there something obvious that I am doing wrong?
> 
> A.

Are you sure it works when you copy *both* lines? There's a missing 
quote from the second line.

Regards,
Sundar




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