Rscript (1) Linux Manual Page

Rscript – front end for scripting with R

Synopsis

Rscript [–options] [-e expr] file [args]

Description

A binary front-end to R, for use in scripting applications.

expr

An optional expression to be evaluated, used in place of file.

file

Input file of R expressions

args

Optional further arguments to be processed by commandArgs in the R interpreter.

Options

–options accepted are

–help

Print usage and exit

–version

Print version and exit

–verbose

Print information on progress

–default-packages=list

Where ‘list’ is a comma-separated set of package names, or ‘NULL’

and also options to R (in addition to –no-echo –no-restore), such as

–save

Do save workspace at the end of the session

–no-environ

Don’t read the site and user environment files

–no-site-file

Don’t read the site-wide Rprofile

–no-init-file

Don’t read the user R profile

–restore

Do restore previously saved objects at startup

–vanilla

Combine –no-save, –no-restore, –no-site-file –no-init-file and –no-environ

See Also

R(1)