I think Rscript has a problem running files that have mac encodings for newline (^M rather than ^J on linux). If I source the file within R, it works okay:
> source('j.R') [1] "MEA_data/sernagor_new/CRX_P7_1.txt" But if I run the file using Rscript on a linux box I get a strange error message: $ Rscript --vanilla j.R " Execution halted The example script j.R is at http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/j.R rather than attaching it here. I don't think there is anything specific about the script though apart from the line endings. Stephen --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = x86_64-pc-linux-gnu arch = x86_64 os = linux-gnu system = x86_64, linux-gnu status = major = 2 minor = 9.2 year = 2009 month = 08 day = 24 svn rev = 49384 language = R version.string = R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24) Locale: LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel