[R] BATCH processing in R

[Terry Westley]

> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Laura Drake wrote:
> My question is whether it is possible (and if so, how) to enter values
> into R vectors (R_OUTFILE, and R_INFILE in my example below) from the
> command line.  In particular, I would like to run R, as a BATCH job,
> from a shell script, such as the following:

> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Thomas Lumley wrote:
> yes. Use getenv()

An alternative method is to create a file named .Rprofile which
contains initialization code, then call the R script.  Example:

echo "R.OUTFILE <- \"$outputfile_name\"" >  .Rprofile
echo "R.INFILE  <- \"$inputfile_name\""  >> .Rprofile
R BATCH infile.R

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Terry J. Westley, Software Systems Engineering Supervisor
Veridian Engineering, Calspan Operations
P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225
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