system() not accepting strings from cat()
I meant charm, not sharm! (how embarrasing...)
culpritNr1 wrote:
OH! The joy! It worked like a sharm. Thank you. culpritNr1 baptiste auguie-2 wrote:
try ?paste baptiste On 10 Mar 2009, at 20:01, ig2ar-saf1 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi again R-ists, How do you construct a string that you can pass to system()? For instance. Say I do
system("echo Hello!")
Hello! That works. Now the alternative: I need to construct the string like this
a <- "echo" b <- "Hello!" c <- "\n" cat(a, b, c)
echo Hello! Looks nice... but see what happens when I try to use it
system(cat(a, b, c))
echo Hello! Error in system(command, intern) : non-empty character argument expected I have googled extensively in and out of r-lists but I can't find a solution. Can anybody help?
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