On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to spawn of a new R process from within R using system(), > e.g. system("R -f myScript.R"). However, just specifying "R" as in > that example is not guaranteed to work, because "R" may not be on the > OS's search path. > > What is the best way, from within a running R, to infer the command > (basename or full path) for launching R in way that it works on any > OS? I came up with the following alternatives, but I'm not sure if > they'll work everywhere or not: > > 1. Rbin <- commandArgs()[1]; > > 2. Rbin <- file.path(R.home(), "bin", "R"); > > Other suggestions that are better?
Rbin <- file.path(Sys.getenv("R_HOME"), "bin", "R") Dan > > /Henrik > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel