You should be able to do all this within R. >From what you have written I don't see a compelling reason to use scripts at the shell level.
Best, Eric On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 9:41 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Eric Berger wrote: > > 1. For R scripts you should also consider the package littler developed by >> Dirk Eddelbuettel, Highly recommended. For info >> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html or the github repository. >> > > Eric, > > I'll definintely look at that package. > > 2. Scripts can be useful both for short calculations, extending the shell, >> or for large R jobs that are not interactive and can run unsupervised. >> e.g. I have a script that is run automatically on a daily schedule. It >> performs a number of calculations and updates a database with the results. >> > > My immediate need is to import 30 data files, change factors into dates > and datetimes, print a summary, then plot a PDF scatterplot. This is why I > need to learn Rscript. I should be able to wrap that in a bash shell > script's for ... do loop that runs the Rscript for all *.dat files in the > directory. > > Much appreciated, > > > Rich > > ______________________________________________ > 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/posti > ng-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.
