(PR#14012)
Seth Falcon wrote:
* On 2009-10-16 at 15:00 +0200 sje30 at damtp.cam.ac.uk wrote:
I think Rscript has a problem running files that have mac encodings for newline (^M rather than ^J on linux). If I source the file within R, it works okay:
source('j.R')
[1] "MEA_data/sernagor_new/CRX_P7_1.txt" But if I run the file using Rscript on a linux box I get a strange error message: $ Rscript --vanilla j.R " Execution halted
I think you are right that Rscript is unhappy to handle files with CR line terminators. But IIUC, the purpose of Rscript is to enable R script execution on unix-like systems like: #!/path/to/Rscript --vanilla print(1:10) So then I'm not sure how useful it is for Rscript to handle such files. Why not convert to a more common and portable line termination for your R script files?
Notice also that other script interpreters aren't happy about CR line endings: $ cat > x.sh #!/bin/bash echo hello Now change the LF to CR and get $ ./x.sh bash: ./x.sh: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory or (if you add a space) $ ./x.sh echo hello: No such file or directory $ bash -v ./x.sh echo hello (overprinting is involved in the last one).
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