On 13-04-2012, at 10:32, Martin Maechler wrote: > I think that's my first true question (rather than answer) > to R-help. > > As R has, for a long time, become my primary scripting and > programming language, I'm prefering at times to write Rscript > files instead of shell scripts, notably when R has nice ways to > do some of the things. > On a standard standalone platform with standard R, > I would start such a script with > --------------------------------------- > #! /usr/bin/Rscript --vanilla > --------------------------------------- > (yes, the "--vanilla" is important to me, in this case) > > However; as, at work, my scripts have to work correctly on quite a > few different (unixy : several flavors of Linux, Solaris, MacOS X) platforms, > *and* as an R developer, I have many different versions of R > installed simultaneously, using /usr/bin/Rscript is not an > option. > Rather, I'd use the /usr/bin/env trick : > > --------------------------------------- > #! /usr/bin/env Rscript > --------------------------------------- > > which finds Rscript in "the correct" place, according to the > current PATH. All fine till now. > > PROBLEM: It does not work with '--vanilla' or any other argument: > If I start my script with > #! /usr/bin/env Rscript --vanilla > the error message simply is > /usr/bin/env: Rscript --vanilla: No such file or directory > > I have tried a few variations on the theme, using quotes in > different places, but have not succeeded till now. > Any suggestions?
I had similar problems running R scripts from BBEdit on Mac OS X. The problem could only be solved by making a shell script that uses the file extension to determine what to run. Searching internet yielded these pages which may be helpful: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4303128/how-to-use-multiple-arguments-with-a-shebang-i-e Berend ______________________________________________ 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.
