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

I add an answer because I think a one line solution is always good! Atop of your myRscript.R file, add the following line:

eval(parse(text=paste(commandArgs(trailingOnly = TRUE), collapse=";")))

Then submit your script with something like:

R CMD BATCH [options] '--args arguments you want to supply' myRscript.R &

For example:

R CMD BATCH --vanilla '--args N=1 l=list(a=2, b="test") name="aname"' myscript.R &

Then:

> ls()
[1] "N"    "l"    "name"