Passing arguments to Splus

[Dennis Fisher <fisher@plessthan.com>]

Colleagues

I run Splus (6.0) and R (2.2.0) from the command line in a Linux environment.  In R, I pass arguments to the program with the following command:

R --no-save < Script ARGUMENT

Within R, I then access the argument using the commandArg() command.  This enables a script to identify files that should be read.

When I attempt the same thing with Splus, the operating system returns the following error message:

/usr/local/bin/Splus: line 208: exec: ARGUMENT: not found

When I  invoke the commandArg() command in Splus (having typed Splus<return> to start Splus), I get:

> commandArgs()

[1] "/home/R-S-Source/S-INSTALL/cmd/Sqpe"

So, can I pass an argument to Splus in the same manner as with R?

Dennis

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