[R] does R read commands from scripts instantanously or seuqently during processing

Jannis bt_jannis at yahoo.de
Thu Mar 14 17:13:02 CET 2013


Dear R community,


when I source a script into R via:


R --slave < scriptname.R


is the whole script file read at once during startup or is each 
indivdual line of code read seqnetially during the execution (i.e. 
directly before r processes the respective command)? In other words, can 
I savely edit the  scriptname.R file even when an active R process still 
runs the command above?


Thanks for your help
Jannis



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