[R] calling R from cmd line, loading in data sets on the call

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> Matt Anthony wrote:
>
>> Rcmd myprogram.R  is clearly documented as unable to take parameters
>> passed to it ...
>>
>
>  It can take parameters from the environment though...
>
>
>  H:\> set METHOD=loglik
>  H:\> "c:\Program Files\R\R-2.2.1\bin\R"
>
> blah blah
>
>  > Sys.getenv("METHOD")
>    METHOD
>  "loglik"
>  >

Actually, R can take parameters from the command line (and Rcmd is 
'clearly documented' not to run R code so 'Rcmd myprogram.R' cannot work). 
This was discussed here only a few days ago:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-November/118073.html


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