Paul Johnson wrote: > OK, my journey to make lab machines automagically install & update all > desirable R packages is nearing an end! The only question I have now is > this: How can I control where the system prints the *.Rout file that is > created automatically when the R batch program runs. In "man R" I don't > find any information about it. When the cron job runs "R_installAll.sh" > (see below), I'd like to re-direct it to someplace that ordinary users > can read.
But you find help in R CMD BATCH --help which tells you: "Usage: R CMD BATCH [options] infile [outfile]" Hence simply call R by something like R CMD BATCH /usr/local/bin/R_installAll.R /path/to/R_installAll.Result Uwe Ligges > Here's the shell script I will schedule with cron > > ------------R_installAll.sh ---------- > #!/bin/bash > R CMD BATCH /usr/local/bin/R_installAll.R > -------------------------------------- > > And here's the R program > > -------------R_installAll.R------------- > > # Paul Johnson <pauljohn _AT_ ku.edu> 2005-08-31 > # This should update and then install all packages, except for > # ones I exclude because they don't work or we don't want them. > > > options(repos = "http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/";) > > update.packages(ask=F) > theNew <- new.packages() > failPackages <- > c("BRugs","GDD","gtkDevice","gap","gnomeGUI","mimR","ncdf","pathmix","rcdd","rgdal","rpvm", > "Rmpi","RQuantLib","RMySQL", > "RNetCDF","RODBC","ROracle","RScaLAPACK","rsprng","RWinEdt","taskPR") > > shouldFail <- theNew %in% failPackages > > install.packages( theNew[!shouldFail],dependencies=T) > > > # VGAM is not in CRAN yet, but Zelig wants it. > # install.packages("VGAM", CRAN="http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee";); > > > update.packages(CRAN="http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee";) > -------------------------------------- > > > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
