[R] a doubt

[Prof Brian Ripley]

?system
?shell (under Windows, which we must guess you are using if `DOS' means 
MS-DOS).

Please use an informative subject line.

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Martínez Ovando Juan Carlos wrote:

> I'm working with different models that where implemented in DOS system
> each one, but for doing comparisons between them I require to put some
> of the results in an unified data form for all the models. I wonder if
> some of you have the knowledge of one function in R that enable me the
> invocation of DOS execution files inside the R application to allow me
> doing an R interface with such programs, i.e. some function like the
> existed 'dos()' function in Matlab, which execute '.exe' files from DOS,
> after have created the corresponding specification file in plain format.

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