If you want to treat R like awk, you should really check out the littler package, a super useful R package which provides an alternative to both Rscript and R C

If you want to treat R like awk, you should really check out the littler package, a super useful R package which provides an alternative to both Rscript and R CMD BATCH designed for writing one-liners https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler