>>>>> "StEgl" == Stephen Eglen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:09:15 +0100 writes:
StEgl> If the last line of an R script does not have a
StEgl> trailing newline, a small errror is produced at the
StEgl> end of the script.
StEgl> Small example. If file eg.r contains one line:
StEgl> getwd() and there is no newline after the closing
StEgl> paren
StEgl> $ R CMD BATCH eg.r
StEgl> produces an error: $ cat eg.r.Rout
StEgl> R : Copyright 2005, The R Foundation for Statistical
StEgl> Computing Version 2.1.1 Patched (2005-09-01), ISBN
StEgl> 3-900051-07-0
StEgl> ...
>> getwd()proc.time()
StEgl> Error: syntax error Execution halted $
aahh, now I finally understand via some people append
those **ugly** unneeded ';' to the end of almost every line of R
code. It would have helped here
:-) :-)
StEgl> Is it worth changing the BATCH script so that it adds
StEgl> a newline before adding the call to proc.time()?
Yes I think it would be. This is trivial, at least for
<Rsrc>/src/scripts/BATCH
Slightly better but more tricky: only append a newline "when needed".
Any idea for that?
You didn't tell us the *platform* you run R on
(and BATCH does depend on the platform),
but I know that it's a version of unix, Linux I suppose?
BTW: The windows version of "R CMD BATCH" is actually
*documented* do to work with files that don't end in newline.
Martin
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