running r scripts or commands with interpretor in unix for unix-layman

Question

I am layman to unix and sofar I using R in windows. For example I type following in my R session (in R gui).

# this is a my funny example script 
X <- 1:         


        

Answer 1

If your program is going to work on a single dataset, then simple-r might be the solution:

http://code.google.com/p/simple-r/

It is especially designed for simple statistical analysis as a part of Linux command line. For example, if one wants to plot some data, 'r -p data.txt' will do the job; for getting correlation coefficient: 'r cor data.txt' will suffice.