Dear Peter, that is very very helpful, many thanks for your suggestions ;) !
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Anthoni, Peter (IMK) < peter.anth...@kit.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > The problem is most likely, you need to call a R CMD BATCH with your > arguments and the R-script inside of a shell script that you submit to your > qsub. > Unfortunately we don't use qsub anymore so can't test it, but it should be > as follows: > > R-script eg. test.R: > > ##First read in the arguments listed at the command line > > args=(commandArgs(TRUE)) > > > > ##args is now a list of character vectors > > ## First check to see if arguments are passed. > > if(length(args)==0){ > > stop("no args specified") > > } > > ## Then cycle through each element of the list and evaluate the > expressions. > > for(i in 1:length(args)){ > > print(args[[i]]) > > eval(parse(text=args[[i]])) > > } > > print(TUMOR) > > print(GERMLINE) > > print(CHR) > > > qsub shell script test.sh: > > #!/bin/bash > > > > #Note: the single quote '...' around the --args ... "..." "..." is > important! > > R CMD BATCH --no-save --no-restore '--args TUMOR="tumor.bam" > GERMLINE="germline.bam" CHR="chr22"' test.R test.Rout > > then you submit with a qsub with all the options you specified the test.sh > qsub .... test.sh > > cheers > Peter > > > > > On 12. Jul 2017, at 03:01, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> > wrote: > > > > This sounds like an operating system specific question, in that "submit > the R script to a PBS HPC scheduler" would be the kind of action that would > run R with very different environment variables and possibly different > access credentials than your usual interactive terminal. A thorough > reading of the "Installation and Administration Guide" and some study of > your HPC documentation are in order. > > -- > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > > > On July 11, 2017 5:25:20 PM PDT, Bogdan Tanasa <tan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> please could you advise me on the following : I've written a R script > >> that > >> reads 3 arguments from the command line, i.e. : > >> > >> " args <- commandArgs(TRUE) > >> TUMOR <- args[1] > >> GERMLINE <- args[2] > >> CHR <- args[3] ". > >> > >> when I submit the R script to a PBS HPC scheduler, I do the following > >> (below), but ... I am getting an error message. > >> (I am not posting the error message, because the R script I wrote works > >> fine when it is run from a regular terminal ..) > >> > >> Please may I ask, how do you usually submit the R scripts with command > >> line > >> arguments to PBS HPC schedulers ? > >> > >> qsub -d $PWD -l nodes=1:ppn=4 -l vmem=10gb -m bea -M tan...@gmail.com \ > >> -v TUMOR="tumor.bam",GERMLINE="germline.bam",CHR="chr22" \ > >> -e script.efile.chr22 \ > >> -o script.ofile.chr22 \ > >> script.R > >> > >> Thank you very very much ! > >> > >> -- bogdan > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >> 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. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.