[Rd] R_BATCHSAVE setting in config.site

[Douglas Grove]

Sorry, forgot to provide system info:

I'm running SuSE 9.3 on an AMD Althon4000

platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status   Patched
major    2
minor    1.1
year     2005
month    07
day      29
language R

Doug


On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Douglas Grove wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just downloaded and installed last nights version of R-patched
> and decided that I'd set R_BATCHSAVE=--no-save in config.site,
> which I haven't done before.
> 
> Since the comment above R_BATCHSAVE in config.site says:
>   ## The default behavior of R if it encounters EOF in batch mode.
>   ## Set this to one of '--save' or '--no-save' depending whether you
>   ## want automatic saving of '.RData' or not.
> so I assumed it should only affect BATCH mode.  However, I'm finding
> the opposite, it only affects interactive mode, and *not* BATCH mode.
> 
> I configured and made R two different ways, one with R_BATCHSAVE set
> to --no-save and one with it left unset (defaulting to --save).
> I compared the resulting scripts to one another.  I found that
> there was no difference in the ${R_HOME}/bin/BATCH scripts but there was 
> a difference in the ${R_HOME}/bin/R scripts.  When I set R_BATCHSAVE
> to --no-save I got:  
>   exec "${R_binary}" --no-save ${args}
> rather instead of: 
>   exec "${R_binary}"  ${args}
> one line 175 of /bin/R.
> 
> Am I missing something (certainly not an uncommon occurrance) or
> is this a mistake?
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug Grove
> 
> Statistical Research Associate
> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
> Seattle, WA
>