This may not easy to do, when the filename are not hard coded strings. For example, the variable 'filename' is a vector of strings.
for (i in 1:length(filename)){ do something... save(....,file=filename[i]) } On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Linlin Yan <yanlinli...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think this function is same as gcc's option -MM. Because gcc > checks pre-compile command #include, in which the filename can be > fetched definitely. But in your scenario, the filename may be from > some variables, which can not be determined by the R script only. > Maybe you can write a tool by yourself to parse the R syntax to > resolve your problem. > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> gcc has options like -MM, which can generate the dependence files for >>> a C/C++ file that I can be used by gnu make. I'm wondering if there is >>> a tool that can generate dependence file for an R script. >>> >>> For example, I have an R script test.R >>> >>> #########test.R >>> load('input.RData') >>> save.image('output.RData') >>> >>> >>> I want to generate a dependence file like the following. Is there a >>> tool to do so? >>> >>> output.RData:test.R input.RData >> >> Is there a way to automatically generate the output files that depends >> on an R script and the input files and sourced files that are depended >> by an R script? I don't see this option in R. But I wish this can be >> implemented in future version of R. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> r-de...@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ 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.