Re: [R] R as a `script'

[Barry Rowlingson]

Thomas Lumley wrote:

or more elegantly in a single file as
#!/bin/sh
echo "library(tools);Sweave('"$1"')" | /usr/local/bin/R --vanilla --silent

What's more elegant than a 'here' document?

#!/bin/sh
R --slave --vanilla "$@" <<EOF

print(commandArgs())
x <- runif(1000)
print(mean(x))

EOF

- save to a file, make executable, run. It even handles command line arguments (the "$@" bit) which can be picked up by commandArgs().


Baz

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