Thanks for your help. I found another cmd as follows: R CMD BATCH infile outfile
what's the difference between this expression and commandArgs()? I try to refer to the instruction of commandArgs but it seems not very helpful. Henrique Dallazuanna wrote: > > See commandArgs() function. > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:15 PM, edisonying > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I am a beginner in R and know only a little about it yet. I have a script >> written in R language, named as "a.txt" for example. I am using a Linux >> machine, at present I only know that I can type "R" in the terminal and >> then >> copy-paste the content in "a.txt" to the R's interface to execute the >> program. However, I want to know if there is any method that allows me to >> add some input arguments directly after the "R" in the terminal. >> Specifically, I want to type the following in the cmd line: >> >> R (some flags or option) a.txt >> >> then the program will begin to run. Besides, if the program will read a >> data >> file first, can I also specify the data file in the command line? Then >> the >> complete command will become: >> >> R a.txt data.txt >> >> This is important for a beginner. Thanks very much!:working: >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/how-to-run-a-R-program-with-input-arguments-tp24465852p24465852.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > > -- > Henrique Dallazuanna > Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil > 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-run-a-R-program-with-input-arguments-tp24465852p24472126.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

