Passing command line arguments to R CMD BATCH

Question

I have been using R CMD BATCH my_script.R from a terminal to execute an R script. I am now at the point where I would like to pass an argument to

Answer 1

In your R script, called test.R:

args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly = F)
myargument <- args[length(args)]
myargument <- sub("-","",myargument)
print(myargument)
q(save="no")

From the command line run:

R CMD BATCH -4 test.R

Your output file, test.Rout, will show that the argument 4 has been successfully passed to R:

cat test.Rout

> args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly = F)
> myargument <- args[length(args)]
> myargument <- sub("-","",myargument)
> print(myargument)
[1] "4"
> q(save="no")
> proc.time()
user  system elapsed 
0.222   0.022   0.236