Chapter 11 Conclusion
11.1 What we have not covered…
- shell scripting
- editing files
- file permissions
- user information
- pipes
- awk
- sed
11.2 Summary
- Shell is a text based application for viewing, handling and manipulating files
- It is also known by the following names
- CLI (Command Line Inteface)
- Terminal
- Bash (Bourne Again Shell)
- Use
system2()andprocessx::run()in R to execute shell commands - Use
Rscript -eorR -eto execute R scripts from the command line - RStudio includes a Terminal (from version 1.1.383)
- Execute commands from shell script in RStudio using Ctrl + Enter
- RMarkdown supports
bash,shandawk
11.3 References
- https://tldr.sh/
- https://blog.rstudio.com/2017/08/11/rstudio-v1-1-preview-terminal/
- https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010737148-Using-the-RStudio-Terminal
- https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/language-engines.html#shell-scripts
- https://github.com/kirillseva/tldrrr
- https://fs.r-lib.org/articles/function-comparisons.html
- https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2017/09/28/r-release-names/
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13478375/is-there-any-authoritative-documentation-on-r-release-nicknames
- http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/courses/02333/cygwin_tutorial/index.html
- https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/intro_to_command_line/
- https://ss64.com/
- https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial
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