yihui/xfun

Allow to pass argument to `Rscript` via `xfun::Rscript_call`

cderv opened this issue · 2 comments

cderv commented

I wanted to use xfun::Rscript_call with passing some options to Rscript like --vanilla

Issue is

  • you need to pass these options to system2() from xfun::Rscript_call().
  • ... is made for that but system2() expect args= which is already used by xfun::Rscript_call()

This does not seems possible for now. I think we need a rscript_args= to pass.

Also, if this function does not supports it, one could use callr which has this option. (and which I did)

If you want to support that, I'll open a PR.

yihui commented

Yes, please. The most challenging part is probably naming. Perhaps cmd_args? (command-line arguments to be passed to Rscript)

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cderv commented

I was thinking of rscript_args to be more explicit but that is the same idea.