[R] New project: littler for GNU R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:

> I like this plan and have now played with the concept.  I did the following
> on Windows in cygwin.  It would also work in Unix, and I think could be tickled
> to work on the standard MS cmd line in Windows.  It would certainly work
> on Windows with a Windows-native port of the basic unix utilities.
>
> echo 'options(echo=FALSE);cat(pi^2,"\n")' | Rterm --no-save
>
> This produces an output file, that normally shows up in the *shell*
> buffer, but could be redirected.   The obvious place to redirect it to is
> awk with a script to filter out everything above the echo of the options()
> line.
>
> The only change to R needed to remove the need for an awk script
> is to suppress the display of the copyright message and startup
> information.  I suppose that could be done with a new
> --suppress-startup-info argument to Rterm.

It is called --slave.

> The other optimizations that Jeffrey and Dirk have, such as
> suppressing the loading of many of the standard packages,
> would also need to be done.

Rterm --slave R_DEFAULT_PACKAHES=NULL

and variables is already widely used in the R build process.

>
> Very good work and concept.
>
> Rich
>
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