Or, even more simply: save your commands or functions in a file. You
can load them from R using:
source("path/to/mystuff.R")Sarah On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Ron Burns<rrbu...@cox.net> wrote: > Peter- > > I use emacs and ESS. Google r ess emacs and check out the first few hits. > > I use a split screen with the R file to edit on the left and get the R > output on the right. Single line commands are executed with C-c C-n and > selected regions are executed using C-c C-r as well as a bunch of other > useful commands for R and, of course, all of the editing power and > functionality of emacs. I am using linux, but it is said to work fine on > Windows. There is an ESS help list too. > > HTH, > Ron > > Peter Meilstrup wrote: >> >> I'm trying to move from Matlab to R, and I'm stuck even getting >> started. This sounds to me like the dumbest question in the world >> but... how does one put R source code in files? Over the last three >> days I've gone front to back through the Introduction to R and the R >> Language Definition, and while I'm excited that the language is so >> Lispish, none of what I read described how to write a function, save >> the source code in a file, and have it be usable other than directly >> entering the function definition at the command prompt. >> >> How do you edit your functions, where do you put the source files that >> contain your functions, how do you tell R to use function definitions >> from a particular file? How do you make incremental changes to your >> functions while debugging? >> >> I have not gone into the documentation about writing "packages" and >> "extensions" other than to glance at them and decide that can't >> POSSIBLY be the answer I'm looking for. >> >> I'm just looking for the local equivalent of (in matlab) writing a >> function, saving it as functionName.m and then being able to call >> functionName(). Or in Python of writing a module.py and then typing >> "import module" at the prompt. >> >> Again this feels like an extraordinarily stupid question. But for some >> weird reason I'm coming up with nothing in the FAQ or in Rseek. >> >> Peter >> -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.
