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littler

R at the Command-Line via 'r'

v0.3.22 · Feb 4, 2026 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

A scripting and command-line front-end is provided by 'r' (aka 'littler') as a lightweight binary wrapper around the GNU R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. While R can be used in batch mode, the r binary adds full support for both 'shebang'-style scripting (i.e. using a hash-mark-exclamation-path expression as the first line in scripts) as well as command-line use in standard Unix pipelines. In other words, r provides the R language without the environment.

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OK 9 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Version History

new 0.3.22 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.3.22 ← 0.3.21 diff Feb 3, 2026
updated 0.3.21 ← 0.3.20 diff Mar 24, 2025
updated 0.3.20 ← 0.3.19 diff Mar 22, 2024
updated 0.3.19 ← 0.3.18 diff Dec 16, 2023
updated 0.3.18 ← 0.3.17 diff Mar 25, 2023
updated 0.3.17 ← 0.3.16 diff Oct 28, 2022
updated 0.3.16 ← 0.3.15 diff Aug 28, 2022
updated 0.3.15 ← 0.3.14 diff Dec 2, 2021
updated 0.3.14 ← 0.3.13 diff Oct 5, 2021
updated 0.3.13 ← 0.3.12 diff Jul 23, 2021
updated 0.3.12 ← 0.3.11 diff Oct 6, 2020
updated 0.3.11 ← 0.3.10 diff Jun 25, 2020
updated 0.3.10 ← 0.3.9 diff Jun 2, 2020
updated 0.3.9 ← 0.3.8 diff Oct 26, 2019
updated 0.3.8 ← 0.3.7 diff Jun 8, 2019
updated 0.3.7 ← 0.3.6 diff Mar 14, 2019
updated 0.3.6 ← 0.3.5 diff Jan 25, 2019
updated 0.3.5 ← 0.3.4 diff Oct 3, 2018
updated 0.3.4 ← 0.3.3 diff Aug 23, 2018