getopt

C-Like 'getopt' Behavior

Last update: 1 October 2023

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0, GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Software version identifier: 1.20.3, 1.1, 1.11, 1.12, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.19.0, 1.19.1, 1.20.0, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.4

Description

Package designed to be used with Rscript to write '#!' shebang scripts that accept short and long flags/options. Many users will prefer using instead the packages optparse or argparse which add extra features like automatically generated help option and usage, support for default values, positional argument support, etc.

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optparse

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