[R] Rank Amateur Question

[Pascal Oettli]

Hi,

I do not use R for Windows. But I would say that you have to run 
'Rscript.exe' in a "CMD" prompt, if I am not mistaken. Not in 'Rgui'.
In 'Rgui', use 'source'.

Hope this helps,
Pascal

On 05/29/2013 03:07 AM, Mark Russell wrote:
> Greetings,
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> 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
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>> R CMD BATCH test.R
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> Error: unexpected symbol in "R CMD"
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>> Rscript test.R
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> Error: unexpected symbol in "Rscript test.R"
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> These commands were taken directly from the R documents found on the
> R-project website.
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> Clearly, I am doing something wrong. The script test.R resides in the R
> directory, and includes
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> 24 + 6
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> and nothing more. The path to test.R is C:\Program Files\R\test.R
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> Any assistance would be appreciated.
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> Mark Russell, MEd MESA
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> Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.
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