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CLIArgumentParser: Enhanced Command Line Argument Parser

Description

Extends the capabilities of package argparse, e.g., in defining sub commands.

parseCMD parse command line arguments for sub-commands, and dispatch to the associated function.

Usage

CLIArgumentParser(prog = CLIfile(), description = "",
    ..., epilog = "", show.defaults = TRUE)
  parseCMD(parser, ARGS = commandArgs(TRUE), debug = FALSE,
    envir = parent.frame())

Arguments

prog

program name

description

program description

...

extra arguments passed to ArgumentParser.

epilog

epilog messages to display at the end of the man pages

show.defaults

logical that indicates if default arugment values should be displayed.

parser

parser object as returned by CLIArgumentParser.

ARGS

command line argument to parse, as a named list or a character string.

debug

logical that indicate if debugging information should be printed.

envir

environment that contains where the sub-command functions are looked for.