command line arguments to R

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Wed Aug 4 22:13:11 CEST 2004


I had thought that setting inferior-R-args as mentioned in
http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/Manual/ess_2.html#SEC11 can be used, but have not
been able to get it to work.  E.g., how would I always pass the
"--internet2" option to Rterm on Windows?

Andy

> From: Pierre Kleiber
> 
> 
> Stephen Eglen wrote:
> >  > Ok, something is not working.  Do you see "R-1.9.1-my" 
> in the "ESS ->
> >  > Start Process -> Other" menu?  (Check that R-1.9.1-my is 
> executable
> >  > from the command line on its own, i.e. executable bit set).
> >  > 
> >  > If you can't do M-x R-1.9.1-my from the command line, it 
> won't work
> >  > with the -f switch from the command line.  I just tried 
> the following,
> >  > which worked:
> 
> [...]
> 
> I just got it to work too.  Key was getting  "R-1.9.1" in the 
> name of the 
> shell script.
> 
> > 
> > p.s. all of this seems somewhat like a hack.  I'm wondering 
> whether we
> > should have an extra var for people to pass arguments they 
> use often?
> 
> Yes... I'd vote for that.
>   Thanks for you help.   Cheers, Pierre
> 
> > 
> > Stephen
> > 
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