Hi All Thanks for the pointers. reading them I see that what I intend to can certainly be done without much pain. However with my test scripts I am not able to fully understand Rscript. The ?Rscript option doesnt print out a lot to help me get the minute details.
Any good example/s or some info on Rscript will help. Thanks, -Abhi On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:37 PM, cls59 <ch...@sharpsteen.net> wrote: > > > Abhishek Pratap wrote: > > > > > > 1. What's the best way to pass command line arguments to R scripts ? > > > > > > As Gabor mentioned, the commandArgs function and the getopt package provide > some excellent starting points for this. > > > > Abhishek Pratap wrote: > > > > > > 2. How to execute R scripts from command line ? When I use R CMD BATCH I > > see > > no output on the screen > > > > > > I believe R CMD BATCH dumps all of it's output to a file ending in .Rout. > If > you want more control over input and output to your script then Rscript is > the utility to use. > > > Abhishek Pratap wrote: > > > > > > 3. What does R --slave --vanilla do ? > > > > > > If I recall correctly, --vanilla makes it so that R does not waste time > trying to load a previously saved session and also makes it so that R does > not try to save history and environment variables when it exits. Vanilla > also disables the loading of options from profile files such as > ~/.Rprofile. > > I think --slave makes R shut up about it's self and run more quietly than > it > normally does. > > Hope that helps! > > -Charlie > > ----- > Charlie Sharpsteen > Undergraduate > Environmental Resources Engineering > Humboldt State University > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Writing-R-Scripts-and-passing-command-line-arguments-tp25334067p25334648.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
