demo/sum.R

In argparser: Command-Line Argument Parser

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript

library(argparser, quietly=TRUE)
    
# Create a parser
p <- arg_parser("Calculate the sum of a set of numbers")

# Add command line arguments
p <- add_argument(p, "--numbers", help="numbers to add",
	nargs=Inf, type="numeric")
p <- add_argument(p, "--logsumexp", help="calculate sum in exponentiated space instead", flag=TRUE)
p <- add_argument(p, "--subset",
	help="start and end (1-based) indices of subset of numbers to add",
	type="integer", default=c(1, Inf));

# Parse the command line arguments
argv <- parse_args(p)

# Do work based on the passed arguments
idx <- argv$subset;
if (is.infinite(idx[2])) {
	idx[2] <- length(argv$numbers);
}

if (argv$logsumexp) {
	fun <- function(x) log(sum(exp(x)));
} else {
	fun <- sum
}

cat( fun(argv$numbers[idx[1]:idx[2]]), "\n")