[Rd] Rscript fails with some packages (for example, h5)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 27/12/2017 9:11 AM, Sun Yijiang wrote:
> Thanks for the details. I’m new to R, and I’m not blaming anything here,
> just that I’m still not clear what good it makes to keep this inconsistency
> between R and Rscript. To me (and probably to many others from Perl/Python
> etc.), this is shockingly weird. I can live with that, and I also want to
> know why.

As Dirk said, the argument was that the methods package used to take a 
long time to load, and many uses of Rscript shouldn't have to pay that 
time cost.  I don't know whether that's still true or not.  Dirk and I 
agree that the inconsistency between R and Rscript is undesirable, but 
neither of us is in a position to change it, or thinks it's worth the 
effort to argue for a change.

Duncan


> 
> Steve
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>于2017年12月27日 周三21:15写道：
> 
>>
>> Duncan,
>>
>> Very nice tutorial. However it does NOT take away from the fact that _very_
>> simple_ scripts (like the one posted by Sun at the beginning of this
>> thread)
>> simply _fail_ in error under Rscript.
>>
>> Whereas they don't under R or r.
>>
>> The R environment ships an interpreter meant for command-line and scripting
>> use which fails on simple scripts that happen to use S4. But I am tired of
>> arguing for reversing this as I have gotten nowhere in all those years.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> --
>> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>>
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