.Script                 package:base                 R Documentation

Scripting Language Interface

Description:

     Run a script through its interpreter with given arguments.

Usage:

     .Script(interpreter, script, args, ...)

Arguments:

interpreter: a character string naming the interpreter for the script.

  script: a character string with the base file name of the script,
          which must be located in the ''interpreter'' subdirectory of
          'R_SHARE_DIR' (normally 'R_HOME/share').

    args: a character string giving the arguments to pass to the
          script.

     ...: further arguments to be passed to 'system' when invoking the
          interpreter on the script.

Note:

     This function is for R internal use only.

Examples:

     ## not useful on Windows, where the help is zipped.
     .Script("perl", "massage-Examples.pl",
             paste("tools", system.file("R-ex", package = "tools")))

