On 7/25/06, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> The issue is that system() on Windows does not run a shell, so piping is
> not going to be available: used shell() instead. Then the problem is
> that the shell available is OS-specific, and pretty minimal on Windows
> 95/98/ME. If you can ignore those (and they are getting rarer), cmd.exe
> can be assumed for use of shell().
>
> echo is not a standard system command on Windows either, and in a shell
> does not do what it does on Unix.
>
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > On 7/25/06, Robin Hankin <r.hankin at noc.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm developing an R package that
> > > needs to execute some code written in pari/gp.
> > >
> > > I've used this before from an R package (elliptic) but the interface
> > > is very
> > > basic: the R function creates a string such as the following:
> > >
> > > string <- echo ' ellwp ([ 2+0*I , 0+2*I ], 1+0*I )' | gp -q
> > >
> > > And then
> > >
> > > system(string)
> > >
> > > returns the output from gp which then needs to be text processed
> > > (translating "I"
> > > to "i", etc).
> > >
> > > I don't think this approach would work under Windows.
> >
> > I know nothing about pari/gp, but I believe it does work on Windows
> > too. There is system() command available on the Windows version too,
> > but with slightly different arguments (than on Linux say).
> >
> > Piping is available on Windows too, e.g. "dir | sort", although you
> > should be able to get around that by writing to file instead and using
> > ">" and "<".
>
> Did you try that? dir is not an executable under Windows (a shell
> command), and it does not work even if you use an executable. You do need
> to use shell()
Too quick there - I didn't do this using system() but from the Windows
command prompt;
> system("dir | sort")
Warning message:
dir not found
> shell("dir | sort")
10 Dir(s) 4,458,024,960 bytes free
...
07/26/2006 09:56 AM <DIR> .
07/26/2006 09:56 AM <DIR> ..
07/26/2006 10:00 AM 15,055 .Rhistory
What I wanted to get through though is that it is possible to obtain
the same thing in Windows. You might have to modify the code to be
sensitive to .Platform$OS.type. When I do these kind of things I
often write a BAT script that I call using system("foo.bat").
/Henrik
>
> >
> > You should be careful if your 'string' gets really long. Then it is
> > much better to have a BAT file (and an sh file on Linux) to run your
> > external calls, alternatively you call system() multiple times.
> > However, I would be suprised if 'ellwp' wouldn't accept files as input
> > too.
> >
> > /Henrik
> >
> > > Does anyone have any experience of calling pari/gp from R?
> > >
> > > Or any ideas for a more portable method than the one above?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [
> > > PARI/GP is a widely used computer algebra system designed for fast
> > > computations
> > > in number theory. It is freely available at
> > >
> > > http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/
> > > ]
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Robin Hankin
> > > Uncertainty Analyst
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> > > tel 023-8059-7743
> > >
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