I'm trying to run an R script through the command prompt. My operating system is Windows 10. I'm having trouble running the code because there is a space in the file path of my argument. This is what I paste into the command prompt.
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\Rscript.exe" "C:\Users\Scott\Google Drive\RScriptsB\Bundle_Runner.R"
I get this error:
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
However, when I run it using a file path with no spaces, it runs fine.
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\Rscript.exe" "C:\Users\Scott\Desktop\Bundle_Runner.R"
The same behavior happens when I schedule the task through Task Scheduler: it doesn't work with the space, and it works when I remove the space from the file path.
I'm using Google Drive to sync work from multiple computers, so I'd like to be able to run my scripts using the file path with a space.
Any solutions?
FOR %%a IN ("C:\Users\Scott\Google Drive\RScriptsB\Bundle_Runner.R") DO "C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\Rscript.exe" %%~sa
would be my approach - the problem appears to be with R, not cmd.
Try this:
C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-3.4.3/bin/Rscript.exe "C:\Users\Scott\Desktop\Bundle_Runner.R"
Or
C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-3.4.3/bin/Rscript.exe C:/Users/Scott/Google~1/RScriptsB/Bundle_Runner.R
This is possibly related to an error reported at r-devel ("[Rd] Bug in RScript.exe for 3.5.0", https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2018-April/075869.html) that has been fixed the next day.
Perhaps the problem was already present in R 3.4.3 (you are using in your question).
Proposed workaround:
...add an extra first argument that has no space in it, e.g. Rscript --vanilla "foo bar.R"
To minimize the impact caused by --vanilla you could use
Rscript --no-save "foo bar.R"
instead (which just does not save the workspace at the end of the session).
Related
shell_exec("Rscript C:\R\R-3.2.2\bin\code.R ");
This is the call to script.On calling the above script, the error occurs.
I am trying to call my R script from the above path but no output is being shown. While checking the error logs of PHP, it says 'Rscript' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.' The script is working fine on the Rstudio but not running on the command line.
Add the Rscript path to your environment variables in Windows:
Go to Control Panel\System and Security\System and click Advanced System Settings, then environment variables, click on path in the lower box, edit, add "C:\R\R-3.2.2\bin"
Restart everything. Should be good to go. Then you should be able to do
exec('Rscript PATH/TO/my_code.R')
instead of typing the full path to Rscript. Won't need the path to your my_code.R script if your php file is in the same directory.
You need to set the proper path where your RScript.exe program is located.
exec ("\"C:\\R\\R-3.2.2\\bin\\Rscript.exe\"
C:\\My_work\\R_scripts\\my_code.R my_args";
#my_args only needed if you script take `args`as input to run
other way is you declare header in your r script (my_code.r)
#!/usr/bin/Rscript
and call it from command line
./my_code.r
If you are running it in Git Bash terminal, you could follow a revised version of the idea suggested by #user5249203: in the first line of your file my_code.R, type the following
#!/c/R/R-3.2.2/bin/Rscript.exe
I assumed that your path to Rscript.exe is the one listed above C:\R\R-3.2.2\bin. For anyone having a different path to Rscript.exe in Windows, just modify the path-to-Rscript accordingly. After this modification of your R code, you could run it in the Git Bash terminal using path-to-the-code/mycode.R. I have tested it on my pc.
I faced the same problem while using r the first time in VS Code, just after installing the language package (CRAN).
I restart the application and everything worked perfectly. I think restarting would work for you as well.
I have the following added to my system path on Windows 10: C:\Program Files\R\R-3.4.3\bin\x64
Then I tried running from cmd prompt ~:> R myscript.R
ARGUMENT 'example_batch.R' ignored
It proceeded to an interactive session without any execution.
No idea how it seemed to work in this answer. I would prefer something this simple, as it is in Python.
The following works R -e "source('myscript.R')"
But I'll never remember this when I need it.
Lucas's solution gave me an error when run in Powershell/Windows termianl (which is now the default on Windows 11). It seems that when the executable dir is inside quotation marks (""), Powershell treats it as a string.
To execute Rscript.exe in Powershell, you need to add & before the dir
& "C:\Program Files\R\R-4.2.2\bin\Rscript.exe" "C:\PATH\TO\SCRIPT.r"
The best way I've found is by executing Rscript.exe (it's installed with R.exe inside R directory).
You can do:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.6.0\bin\Rscript.exe" D:\path\to\yourRfile.r arg1 arg2 arg3
The quotation marks ("") are necessary because dir name Program Files has space between it and Windows CMD wouldn't recognize it without quotation marks.
If you don't want to write R path, you can put R Path to your windows PATH environment variable. This way you could run like:
Rscript.exe D:\path\to\yourRfile.r arg1 arg2 arg3
If you have doubts how to add R path to Windows PATH environment variable, you can follow these instructions (they are for adding Java to PATH, but you can use for R, the idea is the same).
I am trying to run the following R script in windows shell:
Rscript C:/Documents/Folder name containing space/myscript.txt
In this case I get the error:
Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:/Documents/Folder': No such file or directory
However when I use quotation marks (tried single double and triple as was suggested in other posts) I get the following error:
Rscript "C:/Documents/Folder name containing space/myscript.txt"
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
I can't find a way to get around the space problem and changing the file location so there are no white-spaces is not an option for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Further Clarifications:
The issue I am having is not directly related to R but rather to to having the file path that contains spaced being passed to Rscript.
In the documentations, Rsript should be used in the following way:
Rscript [options] [-e expr [-e expr2 ...] | file] [args]
It is also noted that:
Spaces are allowed in expression and file (but will need to be protected from the shell in use, if any, for example by enclosing the argument in quotes).
However trying to enclose the file path in quotes results in the error
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
To avoid confusion, running Rscript C:/Documents/Folder_name/myscript.txt works fine when the path doesn't contain any spaces as does Rscript "C:/Documents/Folder_name/myscript.txt".
It is a BUG in R version 3.5.0 for Windows.
One workaround, apart from downgrading, is creating an R script with no spaces in its path and run the spaced one with source():
## C:\Documents\Folder-name-no-space\myscript.txt
source("C:/Documents/Folder name containing space/myscript.txt")
Then you run it with:
Rscript C:\Documents\Folder-name-no-space\myscript.txt
or also:
Rscript C:/Documents/Folder-name-no-space/myscript.txt
You may also try the 8.3 filename. You can get it with:
for %I in ("C:/Documents/Folder name containing space/myscript.txt") do #echo %~sI
UPDATE
Since 3.5.1 the problem has been fixed.
Forward slashes work just fine with R, so don't worry about backward slashes. I've just verified and the following works at the CMD.exe terminal of Windows 8.1:
C:\Windows\System32> Rscript "C:/Users/hb/folder with spaces/script.R"
[1] "1+2+3"
C:\Windows\System32>
My best guess is that you've got the pathname incorrect. If it's a non-existing pathname, you do get:
C:\Windows\System32> Rscript --vanilla "C:/Users/hb/folder with spaces/non-existing.R"
Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:/Users/hb/folder with spaces/non-existing.R': No such file or directory
You can validate it from within R, e.g.
> file.exists("C:/Users/hb/folder with spaces/script.R")
[1] TRUE
Simple solution: install a newer version of R.
From the version 3.5.1 release notes, the relevant bug fix is described here:
Allow file argument of Rscript to include space even when it is first on the command line.
Another convenient workaround was to create an alias for the portion of the path which contains spaces, i.e.:
SUBST k: "c:\Folder with Spaces"
rscript k:\scripts\program.R
I have R script within a plain text file named "TestFile.R".
I am running RStudio. I want to use the Windows console (cmd.exe) to pipe "TestFile.R" directly into the "R Script" editor of RStudio, without launching a new thread of RStudio.
This command in the console does exactly what I want:
rstudio -f TestFile.R
The contents of "TestFile.R" go straight into the RScript editor of the existing thread of RStudio.
It assumes, however, that "TestFile.R" is in the "bin" folder of RStudio, and also that
cmd.exe is running within that folder.
But I want to be able to do this from anywhere on my computer, using a console command like:
pathToRstudio\rstudio -f pathToTestFile\TestFile.R
To give an example, on my computer, this command fails:
C:\"Statistical packages"\RStudio\bin\rstudio -f E:\"my project"\TestFile.R
By trial and error, I discovered these solutions:
1/ omit the "C:\" part
2/ avoid quotation marks in the pathToTestFile.
So this console command works fine:
"Statistical packages"\RStudio\bin\rstudio -f E:\myproject\TestFile.R
Of course, I still am very restricted ; my default folder has to be "C:\", and I cannot have spaces in the path to TestFile.R, even though spaces within the Rstudio path are apparently OK !?
Could somebody please explain to me how to write this command in a way that is completely generic with regard to path specification?
I want to be able to run it from any folder, and have TestFile.R in any other folder. I do not want hassles about folder names containing spaces.
I want to run a R script file (.r) using batch file.
If R.exe is in your PATH, then your windows batch file (.bat) would simply consist of one line:
R CMD BATCH your_r_script.R
otherwise, you need to give the path of R.exe, so for example:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.0\bin\R.exe" CMD BATCH your_r_script.R
you can add certain input arguments to the BATCH command, such as --no-save, --no-restore
so it would be
R CMD BATCH [options] your_r_script.R
more info on options, etc at http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/BATCH.html
Note: R uses the command "BATCH" to non-interactively evaluate a script located in a file. Here we are running the command "BATCH" from a windows .BAT file, but that's merely a coincidence.
An answer to another question suggests using Rscript.exe, so your batch file would contain:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.0.2\bin\i386\Rscript.exe" your_script.R
pause
It is a good idea to add R to the windows environment path. In a comment in this question #chase gave a link that explains how to set the path on windows 7. Once R is added to the windows path, your batch file should become simply :
Rscript.exe your_script.R
pause
You can also directly call a R command by using the -e flag. For example this batchfile will tell R to set its current working directory to Documents, then it will print the working directory:
Rscript.exe -e setwd('Documents');getwd()
pause
I struggled with the syntax with the answers below, but this worked for me in the .bat file:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k ""path to Rscript.exe"
"path to .R script""
Be sure to place both the path to Rscript.exe and the script in "" together and separately as above.
I doubt you will be able to run it using a batch file.
http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/r
Most known programs that use .r files do so for source code files it looks like. You will probably have to compile it using the program it was written for. I guess you could use a command line compiler from a batch file, but I don't know what language or applications you are using.
If you post the script file or give more information about it, we could probably help you better.