Many thanks to Jim Holtman and Gabor Grothendieck for your quick responses. Jim's solution works beautifully for my tasks. Thanks. I also tried Gabor's solution based on pipe(). Unfortunately it only works on a linux PC, not on Windows 7/Vista. Submitting the command in Windows results in nothing. I suspect that it is because pipe() function behaviors differently in the two systems.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:56 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > [[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.
