On 13-09-24 10:37 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:x <- system2("Rscript", "-e \"install.packages('MASS', repos='http://probability.ca/cran')\"", stdout=TRUE, stderr=TRUE)Thank you, this suggestion seems to work (although I agree that starting 3 procs to install a single package seems suboptimal).
For something that I only do every few weeks or months, I'd rather optimize the use of the programmer's time than that of the processor. I get paid more per hour!
Duncan Murdoch One
additional question: is it safe to assume that the "Rscript" executable can always be found by the R process (cross platform), or do I need to modify the example in case Rscript is not in the system search path?
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