I strongly support this proposal. This will be a fantastic feature!

Regards,
Yihui
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote:
> It'd be cool if R CMD was user extensible through packages, so that (e.g.)
>
> R CMD mypackage::mycommand
>
> would do something like:
>
> path <- system.file("cmd", paste(command, ".r"), package = package)
> if (!file.exists(path)) {
>  stop("Command ", command, " in ", package, " does not exist")
> } else {
>  source(path)
> }
>
> And maybe `R CMD mypackage` would look in mypackcage/cmd/default.r.
>
> Hadley
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to add a custom script such that it is called via R CMD
>> <custom>?  Is R CMD searching for it elsewhere than R_HOME/bin/?  I'm
>> looking for an non-admin alternative, so copying the script to
>> R_HOME/bin/ will not do (in case the user don't have enough permission
>> to write there).
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
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