how to call Perl from R

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I read some archived posts about calling R from Perl scripts. There  
seems to be an R package creating the necessaary interface.

I'd like to do the opposite. That is to call Perl from an R script.
I wonder whether this is possible at all ???
What about Bioperl which is a Perl variation built to deal with  
Bioinformatic datasets ?

Thank you,
Maura
You would typically use the system() function to do this. See ?system  
for more information.

If you want to see a specific example, which includes passing  
arguments to the Perl script, you can look at the R and Perl code in  
the WriteXLS package on CRAN.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz
The read.xls function in the gdata package is another example (the
call to system is actually in xls2csv which it calls).
On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:58 AM, mauede at alice.it wrote:

I read some archived posts about calling R from Perl scripts. There seems
to be an R package creating the necessaary interface.

I'd like to do the opposite. That is to call Perl from an R script.
I wonder whether this is possible at all ???
What about Bioperl which is a Perl variation built to deal with
Bioinformatic datasets ?

Thank you,
Maura
You would typically use the system() function to do this. See ?system for
more information.

If you want to see a specific example, which includes passing arguments to
the Perl script, you can look at the R and Perl code in the WriteXLS package
on CRAN.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

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