[R] How to provide argument when opening RGui from an external application

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Aug 26 14:00:01 CEST 2007


There are also some batch files that can be used with Rscript on XP and info
in the README here:

   http://batchfiles.googlecode.com


On 8/26/07, Sébastien <pomchip at free.fr> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> When you say "look into Rscript.exe", do you have a specific document in
> mind ? I tried to google it but could not find much... I forgot to
> mention in my first email that I am working under the Windows XP
> environment.
>
> Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
> > Look into Rscript.exe (on Windows), which is a flexible way to run
> > scripts.  Neither using a GUI nor using source() are recommended.
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Sébastien wrote:
> >
> >> Dear R-users,
> >>
> >> I have written a small application (in visual basic) that automatically
> >> generate some R scripts. I would like to execute these scripts when my
> >> application is being closed.
> >> My problem is that I don't know how to pass the
> >> 'source(c:/.../myscript.r)' instruction when I programmatically start
> >> RGui. Tinn-R is capable of doing such things, so I guess there must be a
> >> way to pass arguments to RGui.
> >>
> >> Any advice or link to relevant references would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Sebastien
> >
>
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