[R] non-interactive call to R (running an R package as a stand-alone application)

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Bickel, David" <DAVID.BICKEL at PIONEER.COM> writes:

> Is there a way I can have R automatically execute the commands in a
> source file without ever having to use R interactively? If so, what
> arguments should I pass to the UNIX call to R? I need to do this to
> run several R jobs in parallel.

Yes; help(BATCH) tells you one of them. (Somewhat surprising, this is
not in the FAQ. It is mentioned in the R-intro manual though, and
comes out of R --help).

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