Brilliant! Problem solved and you have just saved me many hours of
frustration.
Thanks so much.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 12:33 PM, Jonathan Callahan wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am creating a standalone executable script using Rscript and have run
>> into problems when I define a new S4 class. Here is a small script that
>> demonstrates my problem:
>>
>
> Hi --
>
> Check out the difference between
>
> R --vanilla -e "sessionInfo()"
>
> and
>
> Rscript --vanilla -e "sessionInfo()"
>
> Rscript does not load the 'methods' package, so add require(methods) to
> your script.
>
> Martin
>
>
>> #!/usr/bin/env Rscript
>> #
>> # toy.Rscript -- testing S4 class creation in an Rscript
>>
>> setClass("toy",
>> representation(name = "character",
>> price = "numeric"),
>> prototype(name = "ball",
>> price = 10.0)
>> )
>>
>> b<- new("toy")
>> print(b)
>>
>> When I make this script executable and run it I get the following error:
>>
>> $ ./toy.Rscript
>> Error: could not find function "setClass"
>> Execution halted
>>
>> Here is the relevant version information:
>>
>> $ Rscript --version
>> R scripting front-end version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31)
>>
>> I am in the process of developing a set of S4 classes that I will
>> eventually put into a package. I have been developing interactive scripts
>> that can source the S4 class files without any problem. But now that I
>> want
>> to build a small command line 'wrapper' around my code I find that Rscript
>> is not aware of "setClass".
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>
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