[R] source() does not include added code

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Aug 31 17:11:01 CEST 2016


> On Aug 31, 2016, at 8:05 AM, Doug Edmunds <dougedmunds at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to understand why "source" does not process
> all the code in this R file.
> 
> 1. I copied maCross.R from the quantstrat/demo directory
> into my project area.
> 
> QuantStrat is available at
>  https://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=316
> install.packages("quantstrat", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> 
> 2. I added this line at the end of the R file:
> 
>    t(tradeStats("macross")
> 
> 3. When I enter:
>     source('maCross.R')
> 
> at the prompt, it fails to process the added line of code.

Have you read the help page? On my machine the default for verbose appears to be 

getOption("verbose")
[1] FALSE

> 
> Why not?
> 
> --DAE
> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA



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