[R] thanks

[Peter Dalgaard]

Cserháti Mátyás <cs_matyi at freemail.hu> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> Thanks to those 3 people who sent me answers to my question. Got 
> the problem solved. Great!
> 
> Now, another question of mine is:
> 
> I would like to run an R script from the Linux prompt. Is there any way 
> possible to do this? The reason is, the calculation that I'm doing takes a 
> few hours, and I would like to automatize it.
> 
> Or does it mean that I have to run source within the R prompt?
> 
> Or is there a way to do the automatization within the R prompt?

This could be what you are looking for:

R CMD BATCH myfile.R

or maybe

R --vanilla < myfile.R

both possibly followed by "&" to execute them in the background. 


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