Take a look at this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10575005/output-a-boolean-from-an-rscript-into-a-bash-variable
None of the solutions are "Boolean specific" so you should be good with them (the key is printing and capturing) Michael On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Jannis <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> wrote: > Dear R community, > > > is there any way to invoke R in batch mode, do some calculations and get the > values of some R variables back into the (bash)shell ? I only managed to get > some output saved into a text file with: > > R --slave --args 2 2 <test.R>test2.R > > test.R contains: > > a <- as.numeric(commandArgs()[4]) > b <- as.numeric(commandArgs()[5]) > > c=a*b > > > Is ther any way to acess the contents of c in the command line after running > R ? > > > Cheers > Jannis > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.