R help - Nov 2006 - can Rgui.exe be launched with a script as an argument?

Ultimately, I would like to launch R (from another application) with a
script as an argument that creates a plot.  I am running on Windows XP with
R 2.4.0.  I currently can do this with S-Plus from my application by giving
this command:

?C:\Program Files\Insightful\splus62\cmd\splus.exe?  S_PROJ=?C:\myproject?
?C:\myproject\myscript.ssc?

I would like to be able to port my scripts to R and use R to keep costs low
for academics, etc.

The closest that I have been able to come to doing this in R is to create a
.First function:

.First <- function() source("test.R?)

The test.R file contains the following lines:

a<-c(1,2,3,4)
b<-c(1,4,9,16)
plot(a,b)

The error on launching rgui.exe with a batch file ("C:\Program
Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe " -?quiet) is:

Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) : 
??????? could not find function "plot"

(any other high level function also does not work)

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill

I assume this is windoze. Have you considered using the Rterm? You can 
have in your script the plot to be created as an eps file

Lanre

Bill Bachman wrote:
> Ultimately, I would like to launch R (from another application) with a
> script as an argument that creates a plot.  I am running on Windows XP with
> R 2.4.0.  I currently can do this with S-Plus from my application by giving
> this command:
>
> ?C:\Program Files\Insightful\splus62\cmd\splus.exe?  S_PROJ=?C:\myproject?
> ?C:\myproject\myscript.ssc?
>
> I would like to be able to port my scripts to R and use R to keep costs low
> for academics, etc.
>
> The closest that I have been able to come to doing this in R is to create a
> .First function:
>
> .First <- function() source("test.R?)
>
> The test.R file contains the following lines:
>
> a<-c(1,2,3,4)
> b<-c(1,4,9,16)
> plot(a,b)
>
> The error on launching rgui.exe with a batch file ("C:\Program
> Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe " -?quiet) is:
>
> Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) : 
>         could not find function "plot"
>
> (any other high level function also does not work)
>
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
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2006/11/8, Lanre Okusanya <lanre.okusanya at
gmail.com>:
> I assume this is windoze. Have you considered using the Rterm? You can
windows...   afaic

try with R.exe or, as said and imho better, Rterm.exe. Examples

testR.bat:
 set cmd=C:\Programme\R\R-2.3.1\Bin\R.exe
 call %cmd% CMD BATCH --slave --vanilla --args "sayHello.R"
"rout.txt"

testT.bat:
 set cmd=C:\Programme\R\R-2.3.1\Bin\Rterm.exe
 call %cmd% --vanilla < sayHello.R > rtermout.txt

sayHello.R:
 cat( "hello chappi\n" )
 q()


--
Regards,
Hans-Peter

Thank you to Paul Murrell for a solution:

# test.R
require(graphics)
a<-c(1,2,3,4)
b<-c(1,4,9,16)
plot(a,b) 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lanre Okusanya [mailto:lanre.okusanya at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:04 PM
To: Bill Bachman
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] can Rgui.exe be launched with a script as an argument?

I assume this is windoze. Have you considered using the Rterm? You can have
in your script the plot to be created as an eps file

Lanre

Bill Bachman wrote:
> Ultimately, I would like to launch R (from another application) with a 
> script as an argument that creates a plot.  I am running on Windows XP 
> with R 2.4.0.  I currently can do this with S-Plus from my application 
> by giving this command:
>
> "C:\Program Files\Insightful\splus62\cmd\splus.exe" 
S_PROJ="C:\myproject"
> "C:\myproject\myscript.ssc"
>
> I would like to be able to port my scripts to R and use R to keep 
> costs low for academics, etc.
>
> The closest that I have been able to come to doing this in R is to 
> create a .First function:
>
> .First <- function() source("test.R")
>
> The test.R file contains the following lines:
>
> a<-c(1,2,3,4)
> b<-c(1,4,9,16)
> plot(a,b)
>
> The error on launching rgui.exe with a batch file ("C:\Program 
> Files\R\R-2.4.0\bin\Rgui.exe " --quiet) is:
>
> Error in eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) : 
>         could not find function "plot"
>
> (any other high level function also does not work)
>
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
>
>