On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 15:44, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Try this: >> >> gannet% cat month.R >> x <- commandArgs() >> print(x[length(x)]) >> >> gannet% R --slave --args January < month.R >> [1] "January" > > Is the above > "R --slave --args January < month.R" > the preferred way of using it?
Yes it is. That's exactly what --args was added to allow. > I tend to use > > "R --slave < month.R January" > > instead (as a consequence of reconverting former scripts that used R CMD > BATCH). The second call produces a "ARGUMENT 'January' __ignored__" but > otherwise seems to do the same thing. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
