[R] Command Line Programs

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Kissell, Robert [EQRE]" <robert.kissell at citigroup.com> writes:

> Right Now I have a function that runs these commands. Also, I can
> easily COPY the commands from some editor (e.g., Word) and PASTE to
> the R Console, and R will automatically run the commands.
> 
> The question is, Is there anyway to invoke a series of commands
> outside of the function? In MatLab, as I mentioned, I would save the
> commands in a script file say TEST.m and run the commands from the
> MatLab command line prompt simply by typing TEST <enter>.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

source("foo.R")   # in R
R CMD BATCH foo.R # from a command line interface
Rcmd BATCH foo.R  # Windows variation of same

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