Hi Gabor, Thank you kindly for your response.
Re: Don't need to set PATH -- When I read the batchfiles page, the opening paragraph says "just place any or all of them anywhere in your Windows path and you will be able to access them in any Windows console session". My interpretation of this was that I am suppose to alter the PATH variable, so that if i create a new batchfile of my own, then instead of having to write "C:\...\R-2.8.1\bin\R.exe" CMD BATCH --vanilla --slave "C:\... \myRScript.R" I would instead write: RCMD BATCH --vanilla --slave "C:\...\myRScript.R" which would refer to the latest version of R, and is therefore a very nice short hand i think? Other than that, I must admit that I'm not exactly sure what batchfiles is for, but i have seen it spoken of quite a bit on this forum and therefore figured that it is the best way to handle batch jobs. When i look at the webpage, it says that "[batch]files useful in conjuction with R and R packages on Microsoft Windows" but not why it's useful, if you see what i mean? The README has a good first line though "batchfiles contains batch and GUI files for installing and maintaing R." which is not stated on the webpage but would be nice if it was. :-) Re: Elevated mode -- I did as you advised but unfortunately i ended up with the same couldn't connect to host error. Re: running without batchfiles -- I did as you advised and got this as the path "C:\\PROGRA~1\\R\\R-29~1.0/bin/Rscript.exe" but unfortunately i ended up with the same couldn't connect to host error. As this batch process has worked before in Vista Ulitmate, is it possible that Vista Basic is different enough to stop R batch jobs from connecting to the internet? Warm Regards, Tony On 2 June, 16:52, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Tony Breyal <tony.bre...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > I am having a problem downloading webpages through R when i run it in > > the DOS window under Windows Vista Basic. I have downloaded the > > batchfiles fromhttp://code.google.com/p/batchfiles/and have > > successfully set the PATH. > > You don't need to set your PATH if you use batchfiles. Their > purpose is avoid having to do that in the first place. That > may not be related to your main problem though. > > > > > I open up 'Command Prompt' in Vista and type (after the C:\...> > > stuff): > > > ### START ### > > C:\Users\Karen>Rscript -e "library(RCurl); getURL('http:// > >www.google.com')" > > Loading required package: methods > > Loading required package: bitops > > Error in curlPerform(curl = curl, .opts = opts, .encoding > > = .encoding) : > > couldn't connect to host > > Calls: getURL -> curlPerform -> .Call > > Execution halted > > ### END ### > > Here are two things to try: > > 1. Just a guess but you may need to run this elevated. Using > el.js from the batchfiles: > > el cmd > > and allow it to proceed when asked. That > will spawn a new window from which everything will run in > elevated mode. Try your Rscript command in that. > > 2. Another thing to try is running without using the batchfiles. > Go into R and enter this: > file.path(R.home(), "bin", "Rscript.exe") > > and it will give you the path to Rscript.exe. Using that path > try this: > > "...whatever.../Rscript.exe" -e ...your command... > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
