Thanks. R.
On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:32, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > 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. -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Bioinformatics Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) (Spanish National Cancer Center) Melchor Fernández Almagro, 3 28029 Madrid (Spain) Fax: +-34-91-224-6972 Phone: +-34-91-224-6900 http://ligarto.org/rdiaz PGP KeyID: 0xE89B3462 (http://ligarto.org/rdiaz/0xE89B3462.asc) **NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD** Este correo electrónico, y en s...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ 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.