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Using a console application from within R

2 messages · Jonathan Weeks, Gabor Grothendieck

Jonathan Weeks
# 
I would like to open a console application from within R and then send input
to the newly opened console. I can use the following to open the application
...

setwd(path)
system(paste(path,"icl.exe",sep=""))

This allows me to type in what want, but I would like to do something like
this

setwd(path)
system(paste(path,"icl.exe",sep=""),input=c("icl sim.tcl",
"exit"),wait=TRUE)

If I include input as part of the system function the application opens and
then closes immediately without processing the input.

Any assistance that you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan Weeks
Doctoral Student
School of Education
University of Colorado, Boulder
jonathan.weeks at colorado.edu
303-517-9666
Gabor Grothendieck
# 
Don't know how you tell if its working but you need to write

   intern = TRUE

in order to get the output back.  For example, this works for me:

   system("findstr [a-m]", input = letters, intern = TRUE)
On 1/31/06, Jonathan Weeks <weeksjp at colorado.edu> wrote: