Using Magic Commands Outside Of Interactive Shell In Ipython

Is there a way to use 'magic commands' from IPython from an outside file? For example if I have a file, 'rcode.py' with the code: %load_ext rmagic %R a=c(1,2,3);b=c(2,3,4);print(su

Solution 1:

If you name your file with a .ipy extension, ipython will parse it properly. You can simply make a symlink if you want:

$ ln -s rcode.py rcode.ipy
$ ipython rcode.ipy