[R] Rank Amateur Question

2013-05-29 Thread Mark Russell
Greetings, I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC running Microsoft 7 Home Edition via Rgui. I have quite a bit of programming experience, though not as a professional programmer. I am a Measurement and Assessment professional (standardized testing). I would like to be able to write R

Re: [R] Rank Amateur Question

2013-05-29 Thread Pascal Oettli
Hi, I do not use R for Windows. But I would say that you have to run 'Rscript.exe' in a CMD prompt, if I am not mistaken. Not in 'Rgui'. In 'Rgui', use 'source'. Hope this helps, Pascal On 05/29/2013 03:07 AM, Mark Russell wrote: Greetings, I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC

Re: [R] Rank Amateur Question

2013-05-29 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 28-05-2013, at 20:07, Mark Russell gibsons...@cox.net wrote: Greetings, I have just downloaded R onto a 64bit PC running Microsoft 7 Home Edition via Rgui. I have quite a bit of programming experience, though not as a professional programmer. I am a Measurement and Assessment

Re: [R] Rank Amateur Question

2013-05-29 Thread Robert Baer
You probably want from windows GUI: source(test.R) To read help to learn about this command type: ?source at the command prompt. (Similar pattern get help on other commands too - its an important R skill/habit). If your are going to do a lot of script development, I would highly recommend

Re: [R] Rank Amateur Question

2013-05-29 Thread John Kane
Second the RStudio but also suggest Tinn-R for a beginner as the more extenseve code highlighting can be very useful. John Kane Kingston ON Canada -Original Message- From: rb...@atsu.edu Sent: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:17:47 -0500 To: gibsons...@cox.net Subject: Re: [R] Rank Amateur