On 26 September 2006 at 15:48, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| On 9/26/2006 1:04 PM, Jeffrey Horner wrote:
| >   It can be used directly on the command-line just like, say, bc(1):
| >
| >
| >       $ echo 'cat(pi^2,"\n")' | r
| >       9.869604
|
| Is there a technical reason that this couldn't work by modifying the
| script that invokes R? That would avoid the r/R clash on MacOSX and
| Windows. In Windows R is R.exe, not a script, so some adjustment would
| be needed there, but that shouldn't be difficult.

Quite possible. We would surely encourage it.

We'd be happy to retire littler to the dustbin when `the real R' can do this
too. Until then, littler appear to serve one of us rather well (as R still
can't do shebang-style scripts), and may hence be of interest to others too.

Regards, Dirk

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