Newbie R question PART2

Dieter Menne wrote:
  

R --vanilla

which I like most because of the taste.

  
    

once we talk about preferences, here's the version which i like most
because of (a) least typing, (b) the non-pompous little r:
  

... and (c) superior performance (in this particular case):

    r <<< "cat('foo\n')"
    # foo
  

time (R --silent --no-save <<< "cat('foo\n')")
    # 0.296s

    time (R --quiet --no-save <<< "cat('foo\n')")
    # 0.280s

    time (R --slave <<< "cat('foo\n')")
    # 0.293s

    time (r <<< "cat('foo\n')")
    # 0.055s

vQ