R help - May 2006 - Renaming Rplots.ps from BATCH scripts.

I often use R CMD BATCH to run my files (e.g. script.R), and get the
output recorded in script.Rout -- this is great.  On my setup (R.2.3.0
on linux), if any plots are created, they get stored in Rplots.ps.
This can get confusing if I have several batch scripts in one
directory.

I've written a simple shell script to rename Rplots.ps to
e.g. script.Rout.ps so that later I can easily identify which script
created the original postscript file.  Just thought I'd share it in
case others were interested, or had comments.

Stephen
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#!/bin/sh
## Run R in BATCH mode.

## Usage:
## rb infile

## First (and only argument) is the R script to run in batch.
in=${1}

## Check that the input file exists.
if [ -r ${in} ]
then
    ## I do not like .RData to be saved
    R CMD BATCH --no-save ${in}
else
    echo "File ${in} does not exist."
    exit -1
fi

## if Rplots.ps is readable, rename it to X.Rout.ps
if [ -r Rplots.ps ]
then
    outps=`basename ${in} .R`.Rout.ps
    mv Rplots.ps ${outps}    
fi

It is easier to call postscript() explicitly in your script, as the R 
tests scripts do (and many of the package scripts, e.g. those under MASS).

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>
> I often use R CMD BATCH to run my files (e.g. script.R), and get the
> output recorded in script.Rout -- this is great.  On my setup (R.2.3.0
> on linux), if any plots are created, they get stored in Rplots.ps.
> This can get confusing if I have several batch scripts in one
> directory.
>
> I've written a simple shell script to rename Rplots.ps to
> e.g. script.Rout.ps so that later I can easily identify which script
> created the original postscript file.  Just thought I'd share it in
> case others were interested, or had comments.
>
> Stephen
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> ## Run R in BATCH mode.
>
> ## Usage:
> ## rb infile
>
> ## First (and only argument) is the R script to run in batch.
> in=${1}
>
> ## Check that the input file exists.
> if [ -r ${in} ]
> then
>    ## I do not like .RData to be saved
>    R CMD BATCH --no-save ${in}
> else
>    echo "File ${in} does not exist."
>    exit -1
> fi
>
> ## if Rplots.ps is readable, rename it to X.Rout.ps
> if [ -r Rplots.ps ]
> then
>    outps=`basename ${in} .R`.Rout.ps
>    mv Rplots.ps ${outps}
> fi
>
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