Jim, Many thanks .... last part of the puzzle is now solved. I have reworked the script and now it runs with 4 arguments.
Thanks for your help. Regards, Ian Jim Lemon-2 wrote: > > On 10/16/2009 11:01 PM, one2luv wrote: >> I am hoping someone will tak up this chalenge (I am new to R) >> >> I have inheritied an R script but need to change it. The script currently >> includes hardcoded file locations on lines 12,166 and 167. I need to >> modify >> this script to allow the folder to be passed as a command line argument >> to >> Rscript.exe >> >> > Hi Ian, > You can do something like this: > > pdfoutputfile<-"/home/jim/R/Rplots.pdf" > pdf(pdfoutputfile,...) > > and similarly for the other instances. Unfortunately, you can't just > define a path and pass it as an argument, for functions like "pdf" and > "read.csv" won't stick the path and filename together unless you write a > wrapper for each function that creates the complete path/filename and > then passes it to the original function. > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Urgent-help-requested-to-modify-a-script-tp25924237p25954069.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.
