Hello,
I'm using the R package argparse to parse command line arguments.
For readability, I'd like to add line breaks in the "description" of the
script and in the help of the arguments. However, I can't do it... Let's
see an example. Given this script:
#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
require(argparse)
docstring<- "Description\nDone"
parser<- ArgumentParser(description= docstring)
args<- parser$parse_args()
When executed with *-h* it should print:
Description
Done
However, I'm getting the error:
Error in rjson::fromJSON(output) : unexpected character 'F'
Calls: <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
Variation of docstring like *paste("Description", "Done", sep= '\n')* are
equally unsuccessful.
As well as passing RawTextHelpFormatter like:
parser<- ArgumentParser(description= docstring, RawTextHelpFormatter= TRUE)
Any idea how to put line breaks in argparse?
Many thanks!
NB: Cross posted on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/posts/27150625/
Dario
sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
base
other attached packages:
[1] argparse_1.0.1 proto_0.3-10
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] findpython_1.0.1 getopt_1.20.0 rjson_0.2.13
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