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Command Line Programs #455

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MichaelBAnderson opened this issue Oct 28, 2019 · 2 comments
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Command Line Programs #455

MichaelBAnderson opened this issue Oct 28, 2019 · 2 comments
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Dear Carpentries,

As I was preparing for my demonstration, I ran into an issue with episode 5: Command Line Programs.

Previous to this episode everything was straight-forward but, at-least for me, this lesson required some initial clarification for setup and use:

1. The lesson instructs the students to create an R script with a notepad editor (Notepad) and save the file as <session_info.R> and change the file extension from .txt to .R (thus creating an R script)

  • it does not say where to save these newly created R scripts (this is critical and where I was confused)

Solution: Any R script that is to be used by command-line programs (CMD line / Bash) must be saved to the same folder as R.exe and Rscript.exe

I am unsure if this confused others but it took me awhile to figure out.

Thanks,

-Michael Anderson

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HaoZeke commented Oct 29, 2019

Thanks for the great catch and for detailing your experience. Would you like to go forward with improving the docs via a pull-request?

@HaoZeke HaoZeke added enhancement Enhancement to lesson material good first issue Good issue for first-time contributors labels Oct 29, 2019
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