[R] Load a program at the front end

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Tue Oct 7 20:16:30 CEST 2008


On 10/7/2008 12:23 PM, Gang Chen wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the suggestion!
> 
> Unfortunately " R --no-save < prog.R" does not work well with my
> situation because prog.R
> contain lines such as readline() and () that require user response in
> the middle of the
> execution. I also tried other options such as "R -f prog.R" and "R
> --interactive < prog.R", and
> they all failed.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

On Windows there's a --ess option to say you're running interactively 
under ESS, even though it looks as though input is coming 
non-interactively.  I don't know if that option exists on your platform.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Thanks,
> Gang
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Bernardo Rangel Tura
> <tura at centroin.com.br> wrote:
>> Em Qui, 2008-10-02 às 14:36 -0400, Gang Chen escreveu:
>>> I want to run a R program, prog.R,  interactively. My question is, is
>>> there a way I can start prog.R on the shell terminal when invoking R,
>>> instead of using source() inside R?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Gang
>>
>> Hi Gang
>>
>> I my system just only type:
>>
>>  R --no-save <prog.R
>>
>> platform       x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>> arch           x86_64
>> os             linux-gnu
>> system         x86_64, linux-gnu
>> status         Patched
>> major          2
>> minor          7.2
>> year           2008
>> month          09
>> day            11
>> svn rev        46532
>> language       R
>> version.string R version 2.7.2 Patched (2008-09-11 r46532)
>>
>> --
>> Bernardo Rangel Tura, M.D,MPH,Ph.D
>> National Institute of Cardiology
>> Brazil
> 
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