On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Deepak Chandran wrote: > Hello, > > Usually if I want to run R code from another program, I generate an > R script and run R BATCH. However, I have been wanting to access R's > command line from another program. In other words, I want the std output > from another program to feed into R (command line). Is there any way to > do that? I would also like to collect R's response using std input.
You haven't told us your OS (see the posting guide), but 'R CMD BATCH' is for batch use which this is not. On Unix, use R directly, on Windows use Rterm.exe On both systems pipes work in a decent shell, so you can do things like prog1 | R --slave | prog2 or you can use Rscript. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
