Running a Common Lisp function from a Terminal command prompt

Question

I\'m having some difficulty finding an answer to this, so maybe it isn\'t possible. I\'d like the flexibility of being able to load/compile a lisp file from a command line,

Answer 1

I am trying to integrate sbcl Common-Lisp into R through knitr. Here are few tests on how to send a request for evaluation to sbcl and then return it to R. This works for sending forms, not a file. From the terminal:

sbcl --noinform --eval '(progn (print (* 2 3 4 5)) (sb-ext:quit))'
;; 120

sbcl --noinform --eval '(progn (print (* 2 3 4 5)) (sb-ext:quit))'
;; HELLO-WORLD

sbcl --noinform --eval "(progn (dotimes (i 5) (print i)) (sb-ext:quit))"
;; 0
;; 1
;; 2
;; 3
;; 4