dear Ivan,
Thanks for the reply. One last question:
1. How do you debug if there is an error, particularly if I run the script
from the BASH prompt? The closest I have come to debugging a script is when I
source the script in Rstudio. There everything is intiutive...but from the Linux
prompt?
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
AKSHAY M KULKARNI
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From: Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2022 8:52 PM
To: akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com>
Cc: R help Mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] difference between script and a function....
On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:54:52 +0000
akshay kulkarni <akshay_e4 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> If there is some error in the script, the error will be output to
> the stdout? Or to the file that it creates for saving the output of
> the script?
When using Rscript: to stderr, to be precise.
When using R CMD BATCH: to the Rout file.
> Will ALL the intermediate objects be stored ?
May I shamelessly plug my own package, depcache? Using its cache()
function, you can save intermediate objects into *.rds files in a
relatively transparent manner. By default, they are stored in a
subdirectory of the working directory. A downside is that I haven't
come up with a useful cache expiration strategy yet.
A more involved approach that will also let you access your
intermediates is provided by the "targets" package, not only on CRAN
but also peer-reviewed by rOpenSci.
--
Best regards,
Ivan
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