Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 9/26/2006 1:04 PM, Jeffrey Horner wrote: [...]
>> It can be used directly on the command-line just like, say, bc(1): >> >> >> $ echo 'cat(pi^2,"\n")' | r >> 9.869604 > > Is there a technical reason that this couldn't work by modifying the > script that invokes R? That would avoid the r/R clash on MacOSX and > Windows. In Windows R is R.exe, not a script, so some adjustment would > be needed there, but that shouldn't be difficult. In fact, it does work: $ echo 'cat(pi^2,"\n")' | R --vanilla --slave 9.869604 but what's more compelling is the ability to utilize the UNIX hash-bang mechanism. Jeff -- http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
