[BioC] [R] Call SAS from R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, David Forrest wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Shin, David wrote:
> ...
>>> system("c:\\program files\\sas institute\\v8\\sas.exe test")
>> Warning message:
>> c:\program not found
>
> Escape the spaces too.  It is trying to run the program c:\program or
> c:\progra~1\sas

Sorry that does not work.  The Windows way is to quote it: e.g.

system('"c:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe"')

works, and there is an example on the help page ?system, so please do as 
the posting guide asks and read the documentation ....

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