Rscript - front end for scripting with R
Rscript [--options] [-e expr] file
[args]
A binary front-end to R, for use in scripting applications.
- expr
- An optional expression to be evaluated, used in place of file.
- file
- Input file of R expressions
- args
- Optional further arguments to be processed by commandArgs in the R
interpreter.
--options accepted are
- --help
- Print usage and exit
- --version
- Print version and exit
- --verbose
- Print information on progress
- --default-packages=list
- Where 'list' is a comma-separated set of package names, or 'NULL'
and also options to R (in addition to --slave
--no-restore), such as
- --save
- Do save workspace at the end of the session
- --no-environ
- Don't read the site and user environment files
- --no-site-file
- Don't read the site-wide Rprofile
- --no-init-file
- Don't read the user R profile
- --restore
- Do restore previously saved objects at startup
- --vanilla
- Combine --no-save, --no-restore, --no-site-file
--no-init-file and --no-environ