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Redirect Input

Syntax

source(file, local=FALSE)

Arguments

file the name of the file to read from (quoted).
local if local is FALSE, the statements scanned are evaluated in the global environment, otherwise in the local calling source.

Description

source causes R to accept its input from the named file (the name must be quoted). Input is read from that file until the end of the file is reached. parse is used to scan the files in, they are then evaluated sequentially in the chosen environment.