[R] Problem in using BATCH command

Henrik Bengtsson hb at stat.berkeley.edu
Tue Sep 22 18:28:27 CEST 2009


You probably want to use the source() command in R.

R CMD BATCH is used from the command line - it's rare that people use
it (unless they really know what they are doing).

/Henrik

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Manuj Sharma <smanuj1970 at yahoo.in> wrote:
> I tried to use BATCH command to run an input file (a simple text file) which contained a few R commands.
>
> I first saw the BATCH help page using
>      > ?BATCH
>
> The help page mentioned the Usage as:
> Batch Execution of RR CMD BATCH [options] infile [outfile]
>
> The Detailed section mentioned the following:
>
> Use R CMD BATCH --help to be reminded of the usage.
>
> My input file is called batchchk, which contains the following R commands:
> ls()
> ox <- read.table("rev_full_idle.out", header=TRUE)
> ov <- ox$Times
> length(ov)
> summary(ov)
>
> I loaded the utils library (probably it is loaded by default):
>   > library(utils)
>
> I ran the following commands and got the indicated errors:
>
>   > BATCH batchchk
>     Error: unexpected symbol in "BATCH batchchk"
>
>   > R CMD BATCH batchchk
>     Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>   > R CMD BATCH --help
>     Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
>
>   > BATCH --help
>     Error: object 'BATCH' not found
>
> Can somebody please point out where I am going wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Manuj
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