On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > Matt Anthony wrote: > >> Rcmd myprogram.R is clearly documented as unable to take parameters >> passed to it ... >> > > It can take parameters from the environment though... > > > H:\> set METHOD=loglik > H:\> "c:\Program Files\R\R-2.2.1\bin\R" > > blah blah > > > Sys.getenv("METHOD") > METHOD > "loglik" > >
Actually, R can take parameters from the command line (and Rcmd is 'clearly documented' not to run R code so 'Rcmd myprogram.R' cannot work). This was discussed here only a few days ago: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-November/118073.html -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.