Thanks for your help. I tried the way you mentioned for my first question. But I am not getting any results. Can you please explain in detail the process through which I can run a R code from windows command prompt.
2011/6/28 Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > > > On 28.06.2011 11:54, siddharth arun wrote: > >> 1. I have a R program in a file say "functions.R". >> I load the "functions.R" file the R using source("function.R") and then >> call >> functionsf1(), f2() etc. which are declared and defined within >> "function.R" >> file. >> I also need to load a couple of R libraries using library() before I can >> use f1(), f2() etc. >> >> My question is can I acheive all this (i.e. calling function f1() and >> f2()) >> from the windows prompt without opening the R environment ? If yes then >> how? >> > > > Put all the code into a file, e.g. "foo.R", and run > > R CMD BATCH foo.R from the windows command shell. > > > > 2. Also, Is there any way to scan strings directly. Like scan() function >> only scans numerical values. Is there any way to scan strings? >> > > Yes, it is called scan() which is for arbitrary data, including > character(). See ?scan. Otherwise, you may want to look into ?readLines > > Uwe Ligges > > -- Siddharth Arun, 4th Year Undergraduate student Industrial Engineering and Management, IIT Kharagpur [[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.