R CMD BATCH --vanilla --slave produces unwanted lines
Supply a separate output file name explicitly to write(). - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor -
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Robin Hankin wrote:
Anyway, now I'm trying to run R in batch mode, but I'm getting extra output, which I don't want (RedHat 8.3, R-1.7.0): r:~% cat test.R options(echo=FALSE) write(rnorm(4),"") r:~% R CMD BATCH --vanilla --slave test.R r:~% cat test.Rout
options(echo=FALSE)
0.1500393 0.1067567 0.2707306 -1.657154 [1] 1.82 0.07 1.87 0.00 0.00 r:~% I just want the four random variables, not the "options(echo=FALSE)" line nor the final line which looks like the output of a proc.time() call (how come this is called at all if I'm using the --vanilla flag?) How do I arrange for test.Rout to contain just a single line of four random variables? Robin Hankin, Lecturer, School of Geography and Environmental Science Tamaki Campus Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand r.hankin at auckland.ac.nz tel 0064-9-373-7599 x6820; FAX 0064-9-373-7042