[Rd] Rscript fails with some packages (for example, h5)
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 27 18:28:38 CET 2017
On 27/12/2017 9:11 AM, Sun Yijiang wrote:
> Thanks for the details. I’m new to R, and I’m not blaming anything here,
> just that I’m still not clear what good it makes to keep this inconsistency
> between R and Rscript. To me (and probably to many others from Perl/Python
> etc.), this is shockingly weird. I can live with that, and I also want to
> know why.
As Dirk said, the argument was that the methods package used to take a
long time to load, and many uses of Rscript shouldn't have to pay that
time cost. I don't know whether that's still true or not. Dirk and I
agree that the inconsistency between R and Rscript is undesirable, but
neither of us is in a position to change it, or thinks it's worth the
effort to argue for a change.
Duncan
>
> Steve
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>于2017年12月27日 周三21:15写道:
>
>>
>> Duncan,
>>
>> Very nice tutorial. However it does NOT take away from the fact that _very_
>> simple_ scripts (like the one posted by Sun at the beginning of this
>> thread)
>> simply _fail_ in error under Rscript.
>>
>> Whereas they don't under R or r.
>>
>> The R environment ships an interpreter meant for command-line and scripting
>> use which fails on simple scripts that happen to use S4. But I am tired of
>> arguing for reversing this as I have gotten nowhere in all those years.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> --
>> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>>
>
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