From sunyijiang at gmail.com  Wed Dec 27 15:11:50 2017
From: sunyijiang at gmail.com (Sun Yijiang)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:11:50 +0000
Subject: [Rd] Rscript fails with some packages (for example, h5)
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Thanks for the details. I?m new to R, and I?m not blaming anything here,
just that I?m still not clear what good it makes to keep this inconsistency
between R and Rscript. To me (and probably to many others from Perl/Python
etc.), this is shockingly weird. I can live with that, and I also want to
know why.

Steve
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>?2017?12?27? ??21:15???

>
> Duncan,
>
> Very nice tutorial. However it does NOT take away from the fact that _very_
> simple_ scripts (like the one posted by Sun at the beginning of this
> thread)
> simply _fail_ in error under Rscript.
>
> Whereas they don't under R or r.
>
> The R environment ships an interpreter meant for command-line and scripting
> use which fails on simple scripts that happen to use S4. But I am tired of
> arguing for reversing this as I have gotten nowhere in all those years.
>
> Dirk
>
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[Rd] Rscript fails with some packages (for example, h5)
Sun Yijiang