[R] How to source a part of the file

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 22:56:39 CET 2011


I meant to say, but my fingers got ahead of my brain:

source(textConnection(readLines(yourFile)[10:20]))

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:53 PM, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can do:
>
> source(readLines(yourFile)[10:20])   # lines 10-20 of the file
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Paul Y. Peng <pywpeng at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a text file of R commands. Some times I only want to run a few lines
>> of the R commands in an existing R session and wonder whether there is a
>> simple way to do this.
>>
>> To run a few lines in a new session of R, I could use sed to pick up the
>> lines from the file and pipe them into R.
>>
>> source() does not allow me to specify which lines to be included/excluded.
>> Is there any function that is similar to source() but allows me to specify
>> lines included/excluded?
>>
>> Paul.
>>
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