On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Paul Y. Peng <pywp...@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? >
To just source lines 15 through 16 try this: source(pipe("sed -n 15,16p myfile.R")) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.