[R] about get stdout from other program

[Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Michael S wrote:

> if I want to use stdout from other language as my R program input ,which is
> the best way for design the API,using Pipe function or produce a temporary
> file,using scan function to read the file ?

A file for portability, since pipes do not work well on Windows 9x.

A pipe or fifo if you want to wait on output from another program.

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