[Rd] Trailing message on R CMD BATCH

Gregor Gorjanc gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si
Wed Jan 10 21:22:32 CET 2007


Brian Ripley <ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> Unix versions of R CMD BATCH have reported proc.time() unless the script 
> ends in q().  E.g. if the input is 'search()' the output is
> 
> > invisible(options(echo = TRUE))
> > search()
> [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "package:stats"     "package:graphics"
> [4] "package:grDevices" "package:utils"     "package:datasets"
> [7] "package:methods"   "Autoloads"         "package:base"
> >
> > proc.time()
> [1] 1.053 0.067 1.109 0.000 0.000
> >

I did not notice that this is only for unix version of R CMD BATCH. Since 
R CMD BATCH is prefered way to run things in background and usually for longer
time it is good to have this info. I would suggest to add this also in Windows
version.

Gregor



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