[R] File based configuration

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See the following (the email seems to have wrapped 2 lines onto one
at one point but it should be obvious):

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/06/18853.html

On Dec 5, 2007 5:05 PM, Thomas Allen <hedbag at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wanting to run R scripts non-interactively as part of a
> "technology independent" framework.
> I want control over the behaviour of these processes by specifying
> various global variables in a "configuration file" that would be
> passed as a command line argument.
>
> I'm wondering if you know of any R support for configuration file
> formats. (i.e. any functions that would read a configuration file of
> some common format)
>
> For example:
> -The .properties configuration format for java seems to be quite
> popular, would I have to read it in by writing some kind of java
> extension to R?
> -An XML configuration format could also be possible, but it's overkill
> for my needs.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
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