Well, we feel that source does work the way that it is documented to work. Please read the documentation and notice that the entire file is evaluated as one step in the read-eval-print loop. If you want to print the results of individual function calls you will need to change your script to
print(ls()) print("hello") print(sum(y1)) print(mean(y1)) Peter Muhlberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to use the source command to run commands from a file. For > instance: source("do.R"), where do.R is a file in the same directory in > which I am running R. > > The contents of do.R are: > > ls() > print("hello") > sum(y1) > mean(y1) > > > After source("do.R"), all I see is: > > > source("do.R") > [1] "hello" > > > I'm using the X11 version of R for Mac OS X (downloadable binary). Does > anyone know how to get source to work? > > Thanks! > > Peter > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help -- Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help