On 28 October 2015 at 21:39, Marius Hofert wrote: | Out of laziness I just used "R CMD batch" instead of "R CMD BATCH". I | didn't get an error so didn't think about the consequences... One | consequence is (at least on Mac OS X 10.11 but probably in more | generality) that R_BATCH_OPTIONS are ignored, which was kind of fatal | in my case... I am thus wondering whether it makes sense to either a) | have R_BATCH_OPTIONS also be respected for "R CMD batch" or b) simply | not allow "R CMD batch" as a valid command (so requiring to use "R CMD | BATCH"). Both approaches might be delicate... just wanted to point | this issue out...
Same reason we have 'R CMD INSTALL' as there often is /usr/bin/install with different options ... In general 'R CMD foo' will run for any 'foo' in the path: edd@max:~$ R CMD date Wed Oct 28 21:05:01 CDT 2015 edd@max:~$ Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
