Your use of the "<" redirection operator is an operating system feature, not an
R feature. I am not aware of any operating system that that would function
properly in the use case you describe.
It is possible, and common, to construct your input file as a stream as you go.
But a stream is not a file on disk.
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Jannis <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> wrote:
>Dear R community,
>
>
>when I source a script into R via:
>
>
>R --slave < scriptname.R
>
>
>is the whole script file read at once during startup or is each
>indivdual line of code read seqnetially during the execution (i.e.
>directly before r processes the respective command)? In other words,
>can
>I savely edit the scriptname.R file even when an active R process
>still
>runs the command above?
>
>
>Thanks for your help
>Jannis
>
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