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Dear R-core Team, As Thomas Lumley pointed out in one of his e-mails one can use commandArgs() to get a copy of the command line arguments supplied when R session was invoked and then use grep to extract parameters of interest. His solution works very well if the custom options are passed by names, e.g. --my-option=value, but what if one wants to pass parameters by their positions. Then it's