Message-ID: <498B4A2E.8090106@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Date: 2009-02-05T20:21:02Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: R system command on windows
In-Reply-To: <176A06E658ED0745965C072C5F2C116A02F447F4@EXCHANGE2VS2.campus.mcgill.ca>
Aurelie Labbe, Dr. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use the R command "system" under windows (XP). If I try the simple command system("mkdir toto") to create a directory toto, it tells me that it cannot find the command mkdir...
> Does anybody knows how it works ? Is it a path problem ? Maybe the answer is simple: I am a R user under Unix/Linux and I don't know well R under windows.
>
See ?system which tells you to execute the Windows command shell
(cmd.exe) which is required to run mkdir or easier, just use the wrapper
function shell() as in:
shell("mkdir toto")
Uwe Ligges
> Thanks !
> Aurelie
>
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