I am new to using R. I installed R on my computer (Windows) and everything things appears to be just fine. However, I have a simple script RTest.R that does a few simple calculations. When I double-click the RTest.R icon, I get an Information dialong box which says, "ARGUMENT 'C:\Documents and Settings\kgilder\Desktop\RTest.R' __ignored__" . When I choose OK, R then opens, but it does not open or display the script. Any help or suggestions? When I open R and use File >> Open New Script and path to the file, it opens just fine. Regards, Kye [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Hi Kye, I have never gotten .R files to work quite like other types (e.g., double-clicking a .PDF) in Windows. AFAIK there is no simple way to do it, because you do not edit scripts directly in R (I am happy to be corrected if someone knows better). For general use, I would just open R first and then open the file, or if you just want to run the file, you can use R's batch mode from the Windows command prompt. Best regards, Josh On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Kye Gilder <kye.gilder at gmail.com> wrote:> > I am new to using R. ?I installed R on my computer (Windows) and everything > things appears to be just fine. ?However, I have a simple script RTest.R > that does a few simple calculations. ?When I double-click the RTest.R icon, > I get an Information dialong box which says, "ARGUMENT 'C:\Documents and > Settings\kgilder\Desktop\RTest.R' __ignored__" . ?When I choose OK, R then > opens, but it does not open or display the script. ?Any help or suggestions? > > When I open R and use File >> Open New Script and path to the file, it opens > just fine. > Regards, > > Kye > > ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.-- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Kye Gilder <kye.gilder at gmail.com> wrote:> I am new to using R. ?I installed R on my computer (Windows) and everything > things appears to be just fine. ?However, I have a simple script RTest.R > that does a few simple calculations. ?When I double-click the RTest.R icon, > I get an Information dialong box which says, "ARGUMENT 'C:\Documents and > Settings\kgilder\Desktop\RTest.R' __ignored__" . ?When I choose OK, R then > opens, but it does not open or display the script. ?Any help or suggestions? > > When I open R and use File >> Open New Script and path to the file, it opens > just fine.There is a batch file called #Rscript.bat at http://batchfiles.googlecode.com . If you (1) place #Rscript.bat anywhere on your path and then (2) place this line at the top of your R file: #Rscript %0 %* and (3) rename your R file to end in .bat then it can be used as both a bat file and as an R file. If you double click it then it will run the script since its a bat file yet you can also source() it into R like any R file. It does produce one garbage line of output at the top so it will only be usable in situations where that is ok. Note that #Rscript.bat finds R from the registry so if you upgrade R you will not need to make any changes to your scripts that use it. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com