Yeesh, no. We had 'r' since 2006; Rscript a bit later. Either is MUCH better than this. And littler is now on CRAN.
One R Tip a Day @RLangTip
6 Nov 2015
Run an R script from the command line in batch mode with R CMD BATCH: bit.ly/qRgbld #rstats

Nov 6, 2015 路 5:25 PM UTC

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@eddelbuettel how about "fabric" for R? Put >1 function in a file, run it from cmd line with simple args? fabfile.org
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@eddelbuettel @RLangTip the best of both worlds: r script.R | tee script.Rout this prints the output: easier to track and saves as file too!