running R from windows command prompt

Question

I have a R program in a txt file say \"functions.txt\".
I load the \"functions.txt\" file the R using source(\"function.txt\") a

Answer 1

The following "works on my machine" (not Windows though, but it should...):

If your functions.txt looks like:

f1 <- function()
{
  print("A")
}

f2 <- function()
{
  print("B")
}

the command:

Rscript -e "source('functions.txt');f1();f2()" > out.txt

should create the file out.txt containing:

[1] "A"
[1] "B"

Answer 2

Bart's post is correct, but this can be done simpler. If the code

f1 <- function() {
  print("A")
}

f2 <- function() {
  print("B")
}

f1()
f2()

is in a file 'myRcode.R'; then

Rscript myRcode.R

will load and execute it, including the two function calls.

Rscript.exe is in the same directory as R.exe -- which one may have to add to the $PATH.

Answer 3

Here's a command line script, based on code above:

d:\misc2\bin\Rscript.exe    d:\r_code\mycode.r

Using Windows 7, I ran it as a .bat file. Works fine. Thanks for the tip. (of course, these are just my particular subdirectories)