From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Jan 10 14:06:30 2007
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:06:30 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] Trailing message on R CMD BATCH
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701101300030.11387@auk.stats>

Unix versions of R CMD BATCH have reported proc.time() unless the script 
ends in q().  E.g. if the input is 'search()' the output is

> invisible(options(echo = TRUE))
> search()
[1] ".GlobalEnv"        "package:stats"     "package:graphics"
[4] "package:grDevices" "package:utils"     "package:datasets"
[7] "package:methods"   "Autoloads"         "package:base"
>
> proc.time()
[1] 1.053 0.067 1.109 0.000 0.000
>

This was undocumented, and not shared by the Windows version.

Is it useful?
Do people want it retained?

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] Trailing message on R CMD BATCH
Brian Ripley