R scripting patches for R-1.8.0

# aldus Neil McKay :

I've updated my scripting patches to R-1.8.0. These patches
allow you to write shell scripts in R (at least on *nix systems)
by putting

#!/path/to/R.bin --script

on the first line of the script file. If you're interested

I think this is very useful. Would the developpers consider
including this feature into R?

Peter Kleiweg
http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/

# aldus Neil McKay :

I've updated my scripting patches to R-1.8.0. These patches
allow you to write shell scripts in R (at least on *nix systems)
by putting

#!/path/to/R.bin --script

on the first line of the script file. If you're interested

I think this is very useful. Would the developpers consider
including this feature into R?

Yes, indeed. And I have done some work.  The hesitation is that we are
also trying to integrate it with other ways of initializing R and
moving things to use more R code so that it is easier to
customize/extend.  And I feel it is better to get this right once
rather than shoving this in now on different platforms and making it
more difficult to do the general approach in the future.  Getting it
to behave on different platforms is time consuming and best done once.

 D.

-- 
Peter Kleiweg
http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/

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