Okay, thanks. But it seems inconsistent that Rterm and Rgui support setting
environment variables this way while Rcmd does not. Also, I don't think the
rw-FAQ is all that helpful on this issue. It says:
Environment variables can be set in R in three different ways.
1. On the command line as name=value pairs. For example in the
shortcut to `RGui' you could have
path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe HOME=p:/ R_LIBS=p:/myRlib
2. In an environment file ..........
It would be clearer if point one said that it only applies to Rterm and Rgui
but not Rcmd.
Ben Stabler
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:49 PM
>To: STABLER Benjamin
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [R] Rcmd BATCH command line arguments
>
>
>On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I want to run Rcmd BATCH with R_DEFAULT_PACKAGE=base so it
>doesn't load any
>> packages, but it seems to reject this argument because it
>does not start
>> with a '-' or '--'. Is there a different argument that will
>work? Thanks.
>
>It is not a command-line argument! In Rterm.exe you can set
>environment
>variables this way, but not in Rcmd.exe. So set the
>environment variable
>R_DEFAULT_PACKAGE>S< to NULL, not base which is always loaded. See
>?Startup for the documentation (which is correct) and the
>rw-FAQ for how
>to set environment variables.
>
>--
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>Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
>University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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