Message-ID: <14116.25685.292016.650277@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: 1999-04-26T13:04:21Z
From: Friedrich Leisch
Subject: Invoking shell commands from within R
In-Reply-To: <m3zp3vsixe.fsf@sade.uio.no>
>>>>> On 26 Apr 1999 13:46:53 +0200,
>>>>> Fredrik Glockner (FG) wrote:
FG> In S-Plus, one can invoke a shell command by prepending it with a "!",
FG> e.g.:
>> !ls
FG> Is something similar available in R? Is it possible to execute shell
FG> commands from within R?
Yes, use the system() command, see help(system)
.f
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