For a Google Group about aster models, I want to say that people wanting
help are best advised to provide an example that works as

R CMD BATCH --vanilla foo.R

but I realize that many R users have zero idea of how to start R in any way
other than clicking on an icon.  Is there a way to start up the standard
mac and windows GUIs or Rstudio with no loaded saved global environment?
(Without making it impossible to go back to what they were doing before?)

Is there a way to make the source function do the job (ignore everything in
the global environment)?

What do you tell users about how to make an example that doesn't assume
there is huge amounts of crap that the user doesn't even remember what it
is that is involved?

Do I just have to explain the command line to all the GUI fans?

-- 
Charles Geyer
Professor, School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
charlie@stat.umn.edu

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