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Runing perl script from R
2 messages · Rice, Terri, Duncan Murdoch
On 11-04-08 4:56 PM, Rice, Terri wrote:
Hi. I am trying to run perl script from R. Here's what happens.
setwd("C:\\Terri\\perl")
getwd()
[1] "C:/Terri/perl"
list.files()
[1] "hello.pl" "lines1_10.txt" "try_my.pl" "try_my.txt"
system("hello.pl")
Warning message:
In system("hello.pl") : Impossible to run C:\Terri\perl\hello.pl
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Perl scripts are not generally executable on their own. The shell will
automatically run something like "perl hello.pl", but you went to a
lower level.
To get what you want in Windows, try
shell('hello.pl') # Windows only
or
system('perl hello.pl')
Duncan Murdoch