R Programming By Example

Executing R code in non-interactive sessions

Once your code has the functionality you were looking to implement, executing it through an interactive session using the console may not be the best way to do so. In such cases, another option you have is to tell your computer to directly execute the code for you, in a non-interactive session. This means that you won't be able to type commands into the console, but you'll get the benefit of being able to configure your computer to automatically execute code for you, or to integrate it into larger systems where R is only one of many components. This is known as batch mode.

To execute code in the batch mode, you have two options: the old R CMD BATCH command which we won't look into, and the newer ...