[R] Shell Bash with R

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

Edwin Sendjaja said the following on 10/31/2007 3:26 PM:
> Hello,
> 
> I try to write a bash skript and I want to use the variables from my
> bash skript into R. Ist that possible?
> 
> 
> My bash skript creates  lots of  *.data files. I want forward these
> files directly into R (in x.data.bz2), so that R creates a few data
> automatically also in PDF.
> 
> 

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When I do this, I export a variable in bash using 'export' then import 
the variable in R using Sys.getenv:

##R.sh
#!/bin/bash
export file="mydata"

## plot.R
Sys.getenv("file")

HTH,

--sundar