[R] brew equivalent of "R CMD Sweave"

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 01:50:49 CEST 2010


On 06/08/2010 7:10 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Dear Duncan
> 
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:46:55 -0400
> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You can run a single R command from the command line using the -e
>> option, so
>>
>> R -e "brew::brew('featurefull.brew')"
>>
>> (or some variation on that, depending on how your shell handles
>> quotes) will run that one command.  Use R --help to see other
>> options, e.g. to suppress the banner, etc.
>>
> Thank you for the suggestion. Just tried from the command line and it
> seems to work. I'm slightly puzzled, however, that this option is not
> documented in R --help or man R: 
> liviu at debian-liv:~$ R --help | grep -i "\-e"
>   --encoding=ENC        Specify encoding to be used for stdin
>   --no-environ          Don't read the site and user environment files
> 			--no-init-file and --no-environ
>   LINK			Front-end for creating executable programs
> 
> I'm running 2.10.1. Thanks again

I'm puzzled why you would report a problem with an obsolete version.

Duncan Murdoch



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