2006/7/2, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Johan Sandblom wrote: > > I can't really think why it wouldn't work then. Perhaps it is to do > > with \write18 and the right of TeX to run external programs? Or maybe > > R on the mac does not take the same command-line options? In that case > > the output of the texexec run should be revealing. R takes more than a > > second to start up so there are noticable breaks in the output after > > which error messages from R appear. Btw, the reason it does not work > > on contextgarden is likely that R is not installed there. > > > one problem could be that R has this piping; i wonder why a program that > takes a 50 meg installation does not support something --output or i > must have missed something
I think R is most commonly used interactively in which case it is not needed. Anyway, OS X is a unix-alike so it should work fine. It even works on Windoze! The R MAC FAQ http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#Command-line-version-of-R indicates that this approach should work. Johan > Hans > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
