On 1/11/2008 9:18 AM, stephen bond wrote: > Please, help with announcing an error from Rterm: > > I am calling R from an Excel VBA and noticed that if there is an error > nothing conspicuous happens. I would like just a popup window when R > cannot finish cleanly. The "ret " value returned from Shell is useless > in determining what happened.
This seems to be a VBA problem, not an R problem. Rterm returns a 0 return value when it exits cleanly, and a non-zero value when there's an error. It looks as though you're losing that by wrapping the Rterm call in a batch file. Can't VBA make the call to Rterm directly? Duncan Murdoch > > Thank you all. > > ***************************** > Public Sub Repo() > ds = InputBox("Type in reporting date as YYYY-MM-DD", "reporting > date") > > ''----- weird way to pass the date argument as Windows won't > ''----- execute the command line directly, so I create a .bat > > exestr = "Rterm --restore --save --args " & ds & " < m.in.R > out.txt" > Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") > Set a = fs.CreateTextFile("rpcd.bat", True) > a.writeline (exestr) > a.Close > > ret = Shell("rpcd.bat") > MsgBox ("wait for about 5 seconds as the script runs asynchronously") > > End Sub > > **************m.in.R************ > ds=commandArgs(T)[1] > > ans=f.repo(ds) > > q("yes") > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.