shell scripts in R

Le 13 Octobre 2005 18:39, Benedict P. Barszcz a ??crit??:

Dnia pi??tek, 14 pa??dziernika 2005 00:13, Sundar Dorai-Raj napisa??:

Don't you mean system("ls")? See ?system.

Arguments:

command: the system command to be invoked, as a string.

This is the kind of obstacles a newbie has to overcome. Whoeve is writing
the documentation for R, please do not attempt to save on bytes. Life would
be so much more pleasureable.... if only it would say "as a quoted string".
Jee.

In 'system(ls)', 'ls' would be any object, whereas in 'system("ls")', it is a 
string. Specifying "quoted string" would be redundant. (True R wizard can 
correct me if I,m not accurate.)

When I first encountered R's man pages, I thought they were rather sparse 
compared to those of S-Plus. Now I find they are just to the point and so 
much easier to consult!

Vincent Goulet, Professeur agr??g??
  ??cole d'actuariat
  Universit?? Laval, Qu??bec 
  Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca   http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca