MATLAB: Calling R from MATLAB on a Mac

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Is there a canonical method for calling R from MATLAB, on a Mac?

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Rscript is a noninteractive variant of the standard R command, designed for just this use.
I've used Rscript with the --vanilla flag successfully from the OS X command line in the past. To use in MATLAB, this is what I'd consider doing.
1. Prepend the following to the top of myscript.R, the program you want to run:
   #! /usr/bin/Rscript
2. From the OS X shell, set the executable bit on your program if it hasn't been done:
   $ chmod u+x myscript.R
3. Now, you're set up to use the system function in MATLAB:
   >> system('~/path_to/myscript.R')
The usual caveats about paths apply.
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