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 <jholt...@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 <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? >> >> Paul. >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.