Can anyone help me with the following attempt to use an external
editor from within R
> vi(file="p286.R")
Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : unable to open file to read
> edit(file="p286.R")
Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : unable to open file to read
I have only recently re-started trying to learn R. (I tried before
but failed.)
I am working with a Mac MacOsX 10.4.11. I have R 2.7.1 GUI 1.25
(5166) which is the Cocoa version of R.
I have been reading Peter Dalgaard's book, which is very helpful, and
I have not met any errors so far, so I don't understand why I should
suddenly hit this one.
Since "edit" and "vi" appear to be in the utils package, I did
> library(utils)
to which I got a null response.
I have searched the R-help-archives for the error message, and have
not found it.
I suppose I could use the function source(), but I haven't tried this.
Thanks for any help
David Epstein
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