On 28-05-2013, at 20:07, "Mark Russell" <gibsons...@cox.net> wrote:
> Greetings, > > > > I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC running Microsoft 7 Home Edition > via Rgui. I have quite a bit of programming experience, though not as a > professional programmer. I am a Measurement and Assessment professional > (standardized testing). I would like to be able to write R scripts, and call > them from the command line in Rgui. After two attempts, I receive the > following error messages > > > >> R CMD BATCH test.R > > Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD" > > > >> Rscript test.R > > Error: unexpected symbol in "Rscript test.R" > > > > These commands were taken directly from the R documents found on the > R-project website. > > > > Clearly, I am doing something wrong. The script test.R resides in the R > directory, and includes > > > > 24 + 6 > > > > and nothing more. The path to test.R is C:\Program Files\R\test.R > > > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > R CMD … and Rscript are not run from within R itself. You probably got this from section B1 of the An Introduction to R manual. You run these commands in a Windows console window. In an interactive R session you use source(…….). ?source There is no need to put your scripts in the same directory where R is installed. Put them somewhere in your user space. Read the introductory manual starting from the first page:-) Berend ______________________________________________ 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.
