[Rd] Trailing message on R CMD BATCH

Roger D. Peng rdpeng at gmail.com
Wed Jan 10 16:41:38 CET 2007


I do find the timing useful and would prefer it to be retained unless it causes 
a problem elsewhere.

-roger

Brian Ripley wrote:
> Unix versions of R CMD BATCH have reported proc.time() unless the script 
> ends in q().  E.g. if the input is 'search()' the output is
> 
>> invisible(options(echo = TRUE))
>> search()
> [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "package:stats"     "package:graphics"
> [4] "package:grDevices" "package:utils"     "package:datasets"
> [7] "package:methods"   "Autoloads"         "package:base"
>> proc.time()
> [1] 1.053 0.067 1.109 0.000 0.000
> 
> This was undocumented, and not shared by the Windows version.
> 
> Is it useful?
> Do people want it retained?
> 

-- 
Roger D. Peng  |  http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/



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