Great, thanks, Dirk. Nice example :-) On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:> > On 28 October 2015 at 21:39, Marius Hofert wrote: > | Out of laziness I just used "R CMD batch" instead of "R CMD BATCH". I > | didn't get an error so didn't think about the consequences... One > | consequence is (at least on Mac OS X 10.11 but probably in more > | generality) that R_BATCH_OPTIONS are ignored, which was kind of fatal > | in my case... I am thus wondering whether it makes sense to either a) > | have R_BATCH_OPTIONS also be respected for "R CMD batch" or b) simply > | not allow "R CMD batch" as a valid command (so requiring to use "R CMD > | BATCH"). Both approaches might be delicate... just wanted to point > | this issue out... > > Same reason we have 'R CMD INSTALL' as there often is /usr/bin/install with > different options ... > > In general 'R CMD foo' will run for any 'foo' in the path: > > edd at max:~$ R CMD date > Wed Oct 28 21:05:01 CDT 2015 > edd at max:~$ > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org