Webb Sprague <wwsprague <at> ucdavis.edu> writes: : Is there any documentation on running R like one would run a shell or : Perl script, with out/input directed appropriately, environment variable : access, and command switch processing? : : I looked some, and even remembered to check the FAQ, but couldn't find : anything. :
I think this would be useful beyond cgi scripts too. In fact, in my top 10 New Year's wishes for R it was listed (#10): http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/04a/0039.html I used to use awk heavily but as I use R more and more I find that I think in R more than the others, effectively losing my facility with those other languages. In fact, whenever I have something that seems more appropriate for awk than for R, then if I do write it in awk I will often see if I can rewrite it in R to keep the number of tools used to a minimum. At this point, I would like to do everything I used to do in awk in R to simplify things down to one language since R is inevitably used somewhere along the line whenever I use awk. I am not sure what facilities would be useful for this but I think that making awk-like things easy, might involve more than just cleaning up the initialization. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
