R: Scripting Language Interface

.Script {base}

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Scripting Language Interface

Run a script through its interpreter with given arguments.

.Script(interpreter, script, args, ...)

interpreter

a character string naming the interpreter for the script.

script

a character string with the base file name of the script, which must be located in the ‘interpreter’ subdirectory of ‘R\_HOME/share’.

args

a character string giving the arguments to pass to the script.

...

further arguments to be passed to system when invoking the interpreter on the script.

This function is for R internal use only.

.Script("perl", "maketitle.pl", file.path(.Library, "base", "DESCRIPTION"))