[R] R & bash script

[Christian Schulz]

echo "x<-1:10 ;y<-21:30 ;lm(y ~ x)" | R --vanilla

..uups counting is sometimes difficult, or to late :-( , but many
thanks for this link and example.
regards, christian

Pierre Kleiber wrote:

> One way to run multiple R commands within a bash script is with a 
> "here document".  See http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html
>
> Here is an excerpt of a bash script showing its use -- notice that 
> several bash variables are referenced within it:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>              .
>              .
> R --slave --vanilla --quiet --no-save  <<EEE
> #  ---edit so path to R-graphics/.RData is correct---
> attach("/home/mfcl/R-graphics/.RData")
> if( $keep ) {
>   junk <- paste("$1",".medley.png",sep="")
>   print(paste("saving plotfile",junk))
> } else {
>   junk <-  "$tempfile"
> }
> png(file=junk,height=$ht,width=$wd)  # open plot file
> plotmedley("$1")                # do the plot
> dum <- dev.off()                # close file
> system(paste("display",junk))   # display it
> EEE
>              .
>              .
>
>
> Cheers, Pierre
>
> Christian Schulz wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> how is it possible to use more than one command when i'm
>> didn't want use R CMD BATCH for specific reason?
>>
>> $ echo "(x<-1:10)" | R --vanilla
>> works
>>
>> $ echo "(x<-1:10 ;y<-20:30 ;lm(y ~ x))" | R --vanilla
>> works not.
>>
>> Is it further possible using  bash variables like $i  from a loop
>> in the bash echo call  i.e.   dm$x$i$k <- 
>> read.data("dmdata$x$i$k.dat",header=T)
>>
>> many thanks for a starting point!
>> christian
>>
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