.Script {base} | R Documentation

## Scripting Language Interface

### Description

Run a script through its interpreter with given arguments.

### Usage

    .Script(interpreter, script, args, ...)

### Arguments

`interpreter` | a character string naming the interpreter for the script.
`script` | a character string with the base file name of the script, which must be located in the ‘``interpreter``’ subdirectory of ‘`R_SHARE_DIR`’ (normally ‘`R_HOME/share`’).
`args` | a character string giving the arguments to pass to the script.
`...` | further arguments to be passed to `system` when invoking the interpreter on the script.

### Note

This function is for R internal use only.

### Examples

    ## not useful on Windows, where the help is zipped.
    .Script("perl", "massage-Examples.pl",
            paste("tools", system.file("R-ex", package = "tools")))

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