On 4/2/2006 9:34 PM, ivo welch wrote: > dear R group: I have the probably fairly common problem that I would > like to have one code.R file do different things if it is invoked from > a symbolic link, which should be easy to uncover. > > $ ln -s code.R code-0.R > $ ln -s code.R code-1.R > $ R CMD BATCH code-1.R > > what needs to be in code-1.R to put code-1.r into a character vector? > help appreciated. > > regards, /ivo welch > > > PS : I read the past R-help posts on the subject, but apparently > the older suggested solutions no longer work. (commandArgs() is not > the answer, either.) And I did also not see it under the FAQ in the R > programming section...and may I suggest this for the faq?
I think the answer to this is platform dependent. In Windows, the answer is: you can't. The command line gets eaten by Rcmd.exe and isn't passed to R. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html