shell.exe() equivalent?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

Note that Mac OSX is really Unix (with an annoying point-and-click veneer
pasted on top of it) so you don't need to mess around with this ``open''
nonsense.  Just make ``filename'' executable.  Then you can do

 > system(filename)

Or if ``filename'' is not executable and you don't want to bother making
it so, do

 > system(paste("source",filename))

So you are claiming that if I make a PDF file executable, executing
the file will open it up in a pdf viewer.  Interesting.

No, I am obviously not claiming that at all.  You are just being
silly/deliberately obtuse.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner
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