fuego -
Rather than running R functions via a script, fue::go constructs a function call and runs it directly, to be used via R -e.
This was inspired by Fire in python.
Details
Shell arguments that begin with "–" set named arguments, everything else is matched positionally using standard R matching rules.
Examples
# the following all call scale(mtcars, center=TRUE, scale=FALSE)
R -e "fue::go(scale)" --args --no-scale --center --x=mtcars
R -e "fue::go(scale)" --args mtcars --scale=FALSE --center
R -e "fue::go(scale)" --args --no-scale mtcars TRUE
# Bash quoting can be tricky at times. This is a shell issue, not an R issue.
R -e "fue::go(paste)" --args '"Here I am"' '"Rock you like a Hurricane"'
# included is a shell script "fuego" that does all the boilerplate:
fuego scale --no-scale mtcars TRUE
See also
Other packages that may serve this purpose better include littler and docopt