[R] passing args from the command line

[Richard Müller]

Happy New Year to all!

I want to run a script from a directory on a central server on different 
machines, linux and windows. To determine which machine is calling the script 
I want to pass an argument with the call (e.g. for choosing the display 
device, for writing path names etc.)
I tried the following:
R CMD BATCH --args gui=4 /home/script.R script.out (linux)
resp. Rcmd BATCH --args gui=1 Z:/script.R script.out (windows)

The script started with
args(commandArgs(TRUE)) # thanks to James Forester for his R-concerning blog

script.out says: Error in commandArgs(TRUE): unused argument(s) (linux)
windows says: input file --args cannot be opened

Something must be going wrong (but different things on Win and Linux) (but 
what?)
Richard

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