[R] Sweave and scan()

[Murray Jorgensen]

Omigod! The archival links shows that this was the same problem that 
caused me to give up on Sweave about 6 years ago. I guess I never 
properly assimilated Brian Ripley's comments at the time.

I finished up doing this:

\begin{verbatim}
 > height = scan()
1:  64 62 66 65
5:  62 69 72 72 70
10:
Read 9 items
 > part = scan(what = character(0))
1: "Soprano" "Soprano" "Soprano"
4: "Alto"    "Alto"    "Tenor"
7: "Tenor"   "Bass"    "Bass"
10:
Read 9 items
\end{verbatim}
<<echo=FALSE,results=hide>>=
height <- c(64, 62, 66, 65, 62, 69, 72, 72, 70)
part = c("Soprano","Soprano", "Soprano",
  "Alto",    "Alto",    "Tenor",
  "Tenor",   "Bass",    "Bass")
@

which does give the output I want (though in a different style) and 
leaves the R session in the state that I want.

Thanks for all your help.

Murray



David Winsemius wrote:
> 
> On Jul 27, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Murray Jorgensen wrote:
> 
>> Both suggestions generate similar errors to those of the original 
>> code. I would also be worried if the results would not puzzle my 
>> students.
> 
> You are teaching them about R or about Sweave? You are setting up code 
> that is designed to run at an open console session, but submitting it to 
> a batch process.
> 
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/31347.html
> 
> After reading that I am wondering if you could set up a textConnection 
> first and then  scan from that?
> 
>  > con <- textConnection("64 62 66 65 62\n69 72 72 70")
>  > scan(file=con)
> Read 9 items
> [1] 64 62 66 65 62 69 72 72 70
> 


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