You need to print the result of an expression if used from source().
Autoprinting only occurs at the top level.
E.g.
% cat > systest.R
print(system.time(for(i in 1:100) mad(runif(1000))))
> source("systest.R")
user system elapsed
0.14 0.00 0.20
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Leeds, Mark (IED) wrote:
> If I type the line below at my Rprompt, it works fine. But, if I put the
> same line in a file called systest.R and then source that file at
> the prompt, nothing happens. IF I use R CMD BATCH, it also works in that
> the system.time info is the .Rout file. Is there something I
> can do so that this line also works when I source it ? Thanks. My
> information is below.
>
> system.time(for(i in 1:100) mad(runif(1000)))
>
>
>
> My information :
>
> R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "datasets" "utils" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices"
> "methods" "base"
>
> other attached packages:
> lattice filehash reshape zoo chron MASS
> "0.15-8" "1.0" "0.7.4" "1.3-1" "2.3-11" "7.2-33"
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
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>
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