[R] Writing R Scripts and passing command line arguments

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See ?commandArgs, the getopt package and ?Rscript

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Abhishek Pratap<abhishek.vit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys
> I am Abhishek, primarily a bioinformatician.  I have recently started using
> a lot of R thanks to some excellent packages available.
>
> Lately I have felt the need to batch process few of the R scripts I have
> been working with and strangely enough I am not able to find a good resource
> on how to best do this. I did find few old threads on the archives but none
> convinced me much. So here I am asking the same thing again hoping to get a
> good solution.
>
> 1. What's the best way to pass command line arguments to R scripts ?
> 2. How to execute R scripts from command line ? When I use R CMD BATCH I see
> no output on the screen
> 3. What does R --slave --vanilla do  ?
>
> Thanks,
> -Abhi
>
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