R help - Mar 2009 - how to pass a command variable in DOS to R program in R CMD BATCH

Hi all,

 

I need to run a program (asreml) thousands of times and each time I have
to provide a slightly different dataset. Because I have to run asreml
under Windows (DOS or scripts) environment, I have trouble to pass a
command variable (or pointer variable or %counter in the following
example) to R program so at each counter R can generate a different data
set for asreml to run. Any suggestion appreciated.

 

@echo off

set /a counter=0

:numbers

 

R CMD BATCH generate.data.R [I don't know how I can pass %counter to
generate.data.R]

asreml asreml.program 

R CMD BATCH collate.results.R

 

print %counter

 

set /a counter=%counter%+1

if %counter% ==15360 (goto :eof) else (echo %counter% >> C:\count.txt) 

goto :numbers

 

 

Regards,

Xianming

 



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Create a file test.R containing this single line:

  print(commandArgs(TRUE))

and then try this:

  Rscript test.R a b c




On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Xianming Wei <Xwei at bses.org.au>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I need to run a program (asreml) thousands of times and each time I have
> to provide a slightly different dataset. Because I have to run asreml
> under Windows (DOS or scripts) environment, I have trouble to pass a
> command variable (or pointer variable or %counter in the following
> example) to R program so at each counter R can generate a different data
> set for asreml to run. Any suggestion appreciated.
>
>
>
> @echo off
>
> set /a counter=0
>
> :numbers
>
>
>
> R CMD BATCH generate.data.R [I don't know how I can pass %counter to
> generate.data.R]
>
> asreml asreml.program
>
> R CMD BATCH collate.results.R
>
>
>
> print %counter
>
>
>
> set /a counter=%counter%+1
>
> if %counter% ==15360 (goto :eof) else (echo %counter% >>
C:\count.txt)
>
> goto :numbers
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Xianming
>
>
>
>
>
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