[R] Can R read data from stdin?

[Tony Plate]

The easiest way would probably be to do the hack of creating a temporary 
file to hold stdin, then call R to process that file.  That would be easy 
to do in a shell script.

If this really won't suffice, this older message might lead to something 
useful:

>Rd] R scripting patches for R-1.8.0
>Neil McKay mckay at repsac.gmr.com
>Thu Oct 16 20:30:20 MEST 2003
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>I've updated my scripting patches to R-1.8.0. These patches
>allow you to write shell scripts in R (at least on *nix systems)
>by putting
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>#!/path/to/R.bin --script
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At Friday 02:17 PM 7/9/2004, Hayashi Soichi - shayas wrote:
>Is there anyway I can write a script which feed input datasource from stdin
>and let R process it (maybe frequency report) then output the report to
>stdout?
>
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>I can't seem to find much info on documentation or FAQ on this topic.
>
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>Thanks!
>
>Soichi Hayashi
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