Dear monks,

Forgive me in advance here but I need a little help in R. Does anybody know how to pass parameters to an R script and use them within the script? If I were to do this in Perl it would go like so:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $x = shift;

# ... then i can play with $x here
my @xvalues = (1 .. $x);
my @yvalues = map { $_ ** 2 } @xvalues;
print Dumper \@xvalues, \@yvalues;

exit (0);

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So how can I do this in R? The documentation says to use args <- commandArgs(TRUE) but does not really say more than that. What I've got so far is something like this:

#args <- commandArgs(TRUE)
# This works okay but I would like to replace 10 as a parameter though
x <- c(1:10)
y <- c(x^2)
png(filename="plot.png", bg="transparent")
plot(x, y)
dev.off()

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Any help is much appreciated =)

Smoothie, smoothie, hundre prosent naturlig!

In reply to Passing parameters to R script by j1n3l0

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