[R-SIG-Mac] Rscript

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Don MacQueen wrote:

> Relative to R 2.2.1, yes it is new.
>
> A current NEWS file (available from CRAN) should indicate the version of R 
> with which it was introduced.

R 2.5.0, April 2007.


>
> -Don
>
> At 8:42 PM -0400 5/26/08, Carl Witthoft wrote:
>> So dumb question, but is Rscript relatively new?  I've got R v2.2.1 loaded 
>> on my G4 iMac w/ 10.3.9 because that appeared to be the latest version 
>> which is compiled for my OS,  and there is no Rscript installed anywhere.
>> 
>> Carl
>> 
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 12:39:45 +0100 (BST)
>>> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Getting arguments from command line to run a
>>> 	R script
>>> To: Etienne Toffin <etoffin at ulb.ac.be>
>>> Cc: r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805261233450.7298 at gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed"
>>> 
>>> This is not specific to Mac OS X.
>>> 
>>> See ?commandArgs and the --args argument to R.
>>> 
>>> Something that is specific to Mac OS X is that the most convenient way to 
>>> do this is to use Rscript, and I understand that is not installed into the 
>>> standard path on the CRAN binary.  It is I think at
>>> 
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/Rscript
>>> 
>>> See ?Rscript for how to use it.
>>> 
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