Jan de Leeuw <deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu> wrote: if R had something like > python -c "print(sum([1,2,3]));print(3*2)" 6 6 What's wrong with % echo "print(sum(c(1,2,3))); print(3*2)" | R --no-save -q > print(sum(c(1,2,3))); print(3*2) [1] 6 [1] 6 >