Piping stdin to R

Question

I am having trouble piping stdin to an R script.

Here is my toy script test.R:

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
while(length(line <- readLines(         


        

Answer 1

This does not happen if you explicitly open the stdin connection.

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
f <- file("stdin")
open(f)
while(length(line <- readLines(f,n=1)) > 0) {
  write(line, stderr())
  # process line
}