I am so embarrassed. I now see the syntax error in my original batch file; and if I correct it, it works just fine. I don't know why I didn't get a DOS error with it; if I had, it obviously would have saved me from reporting it as an R bug. My apologies for causing trouble -- it definitely is not a bug in R.
best, Russ -- Russell V. Lenth, Professor Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science (319)335-0814 FAX (319)335-3017 The University of Iowa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iowa City, IA 52242 USA http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/ Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Rterm (sic) does return an error status. You have not provided a > reproducible example, so here is one (done in tcsh) > > % echo 'q()' | rterm --vanilla --slave || echo failed > % echo 'q(status=3)' | rterm --vanilla --slave || echo failed > failed > % echo 'stop("test")' | rterm --vanilla --slave || echo failed > Error: test > Execution halted > failed > > Whatever the problem is in your case, it is not what you have > erroneously reported as a bug. (BTW, I knew this worked as the R > scripts, including the build process, make heavy use of it.) > > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Full_Name: Russell V. Lenth >> Version: 2.3.1 > > > Not current: see the FAQ which asks you not to report on obselete > versions of R. > >> OS: Windows XP Pro >> Submission from: (NULL) (128.255.132.188) >> >> >> I wrote a simple .BAT file to run the Sweave function on a file (via >> RTerm), >> then run pdflatex on the result (after RTerm exits). The issue is >> that if an >> error condition occurs in RTerm, it is prudent to not do the pdflatex >> processing >> afterward. >> >> Here are the relevant statements in the BAT script: >> >> echo Sweave("%1",style=F,eps=F) | Rterm --no-save --no-restore >> if not errorlevel == 0 goto end >> >> The problem is that the errorlevel seems to always be 0, even if an error >> occurs. I have a similar shell script for our linux system, and it works >> correctly. Are there no provisions for RTerm to return an exit code >> in Windows? >> It would be very useful to me if it would return a nonzero exit code >> when there >> is an error. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel