I am trying to run a R script on Linux using Rscript command. However, it gives me an error stating that no such file or directory.
Weirdly, when I use command "less" on that R script, it works and displays the script on the screen.
Can anyone explaining this to me ?
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I'm trying for my first time to run an R script from command line on WINDOWS to automate calculation with another program. So I made my R script using R studio and saved it a .bat file with this line
C:\Program Files\R\R-4.0.2\bin CMD BATCH C:\my_directory\my_script.R
Then I putted the script and files the script have to be executed on in the same directory, the one that contains files to run also the program I need. I came throught command line in that directory and I executed the batch file but it doesn't work. I have this as a error message:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-4.0.2\bin"it is not recognized as an internal or external command,
an executable program or batch file.
Where I am wrong? thank you!
You should use Rscript instead, assuming its in your PATH.
E.g.
Rscript C:\my_directory\my_script.R
Or a single expression
Rscript -e "print(123)"
I want to source an asynchronous background processes using System() and Rscript but it doesn't seem to run the script. The line I'm using is below:
system("Rscript -e 'source(\"/Users/Federico/Documents/R/win-library/3.4/taskscheduleR/extdata/PriceTesting.R\")'", wait=FALSE)
In the sourced script I have it write a simple csv and it does not write which leads me to believe its not running the script at all.
Am I doing something wrong?
Rscript already runs the script, so you can simply pass the path to the script as argument:
system("Rscript '/Users/colin/R/dslinr/plop.R'")
That being said, I have no pblm here running :
system("Rscript -e 'source(\"/Users/colin/R/dslinr/plop.R\")'", wait=FALSE)
Does the script works if you launch it from the shell? Are you sure your path is correct ? It seems to be mixing unix path (with /User), and win-library (windows library for R).
I changed it to this and it runs. All I can think of is that maybe Rscript isn't a recognized command.
system("C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.0/bin/Rscript.exe
C:/Users/Federico/Documents/R/win-
library/3.4/taskscheduleR/extdata/PriceTesting.R", wait=FALSE)
I'm working with R for a while, and I always worked with Rstudio, I tried just now to run a Rscript command in terminal (I have a mac..) and I got this error-
>Rscript script.R
-bash: Rscript: command not found
when I tried to open R in the terminal I go the same error-
>R
-bash: R: command not found
I can run R code with the Rstudio and the R application, but I know there is a way to run R throw the terminal.
Did I miss something when I installed R on my computer? do I need to add R to my PATH?
thanks in advance!
Steps to run R script through Windows command prompt
Set the PATH variable for Rscript.exein the environment variables. Rscript.exe can be found inside bin folder of R. Set the path for Rscript.exe to use Rscript command in Windows command prompt. To check if Rscript.exe has been set environmentally or not, type Rscript in command prompt. The follwoing message should come.
Go to Command Prompt, set the path where your .R file is there.
Run the following command: Here abcd.R is present under Documents folder. So I set path and then run Rscript abcd.R
For those who stumbled upon this but use a mac, you might find this useful. I recently downloaded and installed R and RStudio through the CRAN site. I didn't do it through homebrew. Since I downloaded this install directly from the site, it DID NOT add the RScript executable to my /usr/local/bin directory.
I have locate on my mac so I did a quick lookup:
locate RScript
And I found it here:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/bin/Rscript
What I had to do was create a symbolic link to my /usr/local/bin directory to get it to work:
cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/bin/Rscript Rscript
Now I'm able to run Rscript through the command line. This may help someone else out there.
I'm trying to create a batch file to run an R script for me automatically on Windows 7.
Batch file:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.2.3\bin\Rscript.exe" CMD BATCH "C:\Users\<my username>\Documents\R\Script Testing\script.R"
pause
R script:
write.csv("hello", "automatic_output.txt")
This script works when I run it in R, but when I try to run the .bat, I get this error:
Fatal error: cannot open file 'CMD': No such file or directory
This happens regardless of whether I paste the code into the command prompt, run the .bat as administrator, or schedule the task.
I tried following the advice given in this thread:
Exporting .csv from R & Batch file
but am seeing the same behavior.
I also used the Windows search to try to find "automatic_output.txt" in case it was being stored in an unexpected location but no results came up.
Lastly,
https://stackoverflow.com/a/23514987 seemed to suggest that I could omit the "CMD BATCH", and when I do I no longer get an error, but automatic_output.txt is still not produced.
Any ideas?
As Thomas pointed out, I needed to change "Rscript.exe" to "R.exe". For future googlers, here is the line of code that worked:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.2.3\bin\R.exe" CMD BATCH "C:\Users\<my username>\Documents\R\Script Testing\script.R"
I have been trying to execute a simple test.R
setwd("C:\Users\jdd\Documents")
test <- 2*6598
filename = "test.csv"
write.csv(test,file=filename)
Via the following command line command in Windows:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\R.exe" CMD BATCH --vanilla --slave "C:\Users\jdd\Documents\test.R"
When I execute this I get the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
I have been trying to work out a solution on the basis of the provided error message, but failed so far. Wondering if somebody can help me so I can execute the script directly from the command line. Thanks
Thanks #sebastian-c! I tried to use RScript, which I investigated before. However, the problem was a different one. Appears that in my installation there is a R.exe and Rscript.exe file in .\bin, but also one in .\bin\x64. The first one is not working properly, but the second one is. The comment made by #Roland is very important as well, since once working I got this error message!
The following command did the job:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" "C:\Users\jdd\Documents\test.R"
and the corrected text.R is:
setwd("C:\\Users\\jdd\\Documents")
test <- 2*6598
filename = "test.csv"
write.csv(test,file=filename)
As mentioned here, it might has something to do with 64bit version of R.
The problem is that Rscript.exe itself is attempting to access a missing file on the system. The obvious fix is explicitly add 'x64' to the path of the other Rscript.exe that was installed:
"C:\Program Files\R\R-2.15.2\bin\x64\Rscript.exe" --version
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