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--quiet flag sets echo option to TRUE (PR#1083)

2 messages · a296180@mica.fmr.com, Peter Dalgaard

a296180@mica.fmr.com
# 
The help for options says:

    echo: logical.  Only used in non-interactive mode, when it controls
          whether input is echoed. Command-line options `--quiet' and
          `--slave' set this initially to `FALSE'.

I don't think that this is correct for me.


Consider the following session:

mica|junk> ls
test.R
mica|junk> cat test.R 
cat("Why was this command echoed?\n")
mica|junk> R CMD BATCH --quiet test.R 
mica|junk> ls
test.R		test.Rout
mica|junk> cat test.Rout
Why was this command echoed?
[1] 1.13 0.11 1.20 0.00 0.00
mica|junk> 

Either using --quiet should set echo to FALSE (my personal preference) or the
documentation for options should be changed.

Apologies if I have misunderstood something here.

Regards,

Dave Kane

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 platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.6
 arch = sparc
 os = solaris2.6
 system = sparc, solaris2.6
 status = 
 major = 1
 minor = 3.0
 year = 2001
 month = 06
 day = 22
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Peter Dalgaard
# 
a296180@mica.fmr.com writes:
You seem to be right, but since BATCH is messing with options()
itself, your example doesn't prove it. However, this does:

[pd@blueberry R]$ R --quiet --vanilla < test.R
Why was this command echoed?
(with 1.3.1)

Since --slave turns the echoing off, and it is nice to be able to
kill just the startup blurb, my vote is to change the docs.