[BioC] Re: can R be invoked from another program.

[Caroline Johnston]

There's a Statistics::R perl module which seems to work though I'm not
sure if it's still being maintained. 

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> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:07:52 +0000
> From: Adaikalavan Ramasamy <ramasamy at cancer.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [BioC] can R be invoked from another program
> To: Sucheta Tripathy <sutripa at vbi.vt.edu>
> Cc: BioConductor mailing list <bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch>
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> This question is more suitable for R-help mailing list, but in essence
> yes. However it is relatively easier to call R from some programmes than
> other programmes.
> 
> See http://www.omegahat.org/. For web server examples, see
> http://franklin.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu/R.web.servers/
> 
> I usually simply make a system call to an R script. Example in perl
> system("R --no-save < script.R arg1 arg2"). See help(BATCH) and
> help("commandArgs").
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 02:14, Sucheta Tripathy wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I am Just curious, if R can be invoked from other programs or embedded in
> > another program.
> > 
> > This may be useful if we want to pipeline processes.
> > 
> > Many thanks
> > 
> > Sucheta
> 
>