.Script {base}R Documentation

Scripting Language Interface

Description

Run a script through its interpreter with given arguments.

Usage

.Script(interpreter, script, args, ...)

Arguments

interpreter a character string naming the interpreter for the script.
script a character string with the base file name of the script, which must be located in the ‘interpreter’ subdirectory of ‘R_HOME/share’.
args a character string giving the arguments to pass to the script.
... further arguments to be passed to system when invoking the interpreter on the script.

Note

This function is for R internal use only.

Examples

## not useful on Windows, where the help is zipped.
.Script("perl", "massage-Examples.pl",
        paste("tools", system.file("R-ex", package = "tools")))

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