On 2 July 2012 at 12:00, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| On 2 July 2012 at 09:23, Charlie Friedemann wrote:
| | The error message you are getting makes it rather clear what the problem
is.
| | R is unable to find the function 'hasArg'. As the hasArg function is part
| | of the package 'methods', a solution would be to put require(methods) at the
| | beginning of your script.
| |
| | For whatever reason, loading R via Rscript does not load the base package
| | "methods" whereas loading the R console does. I'm not entirely sure why this
| | is the case, and I'm sure someone who knows more about the differences
| | between the two could chime in here.
|
| That was a design decision in Rscript as loading 'methods' is slow. And
| FWIW, littler does the same:
|
| edd@max:~$ r -e'print(search())'
| [1] ".GlobalEnv" "Autoloads" "package:base"
| edd@max:~$ r -lmethods -e'print(search())'
| [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:methods" "Autoloads" "package:base"
| edd@max:~$
Maybe I should revisit this, though, as littler beats Rscript even when
loading methods --- and I could then argue that little is less confusing :)
edd@max:~$ time r -e 'q("no")'
real 0m0.366s
user 0m0.604s
sys 0m0.304s
edd@max:~$ time r -lmethods -e 'q("no")'
real 0m0.420s
user 0m0.648s
sys 0m0.476s
edd@max:~$ time Rscript -e 'q("no")'
real 0m0.485s
user 0m0.712s
sys 0m0.544s
edd@max:~$
Dirk
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