Calling Function With Arguments In a Script
I don't know what your work flow looks like, but I certainly do not equate "writing R with functions" to "passing parameters at the command line". Rather, these seem quite orthogonal to me. I often have one R file of functions, and another R file where I source the first file and keep a record of various invocations of those functions as I identify which parameter values answer questions I have, and I copy those to an interactive R console session for testing.
I would find the operating system command line an uncomfortable place to experiment with those parameter values because I often want to use R to repeatedly invoke those functions with range of values and then plot those results.
In fact, I can hardly imagine a scenario where I wanted to specify arguments when invoking my R script from the command line, since I can examine the status of the system clock, files and databases from inside R to determine what needed to be done next if I wanted to invoke a script automatically. I would only want to do that if I planned to call R from another scripting language, and I haven't needed to do that yet.
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On May 7, 2015 2:50:46 PM PDT, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
On Thu, 7 May 2015, Clint Bowman wrote:
as in source("pairwise-plots-continuous-vars.R")
Clint, I did this before converting it to a function, when I modified the variables in the script. Did not try it as a function, should have. Thanks, Rich
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