[R] shell scripts in R

Marc Schwartz (via MN) mschwartz at mn.rr.com
Fri Oct 14 00:14:03 CEST 2005


On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 00:04 +0200, Benedykt P. Barszcz wrote:
> Dnia czwartek, 13 paÅºdziernika 2005 23:25, Andrew Robinson napisaÅ‚:
> > Marco,
> >
> > use the system command.
> >
> > ?system
> >
> > I hope that this helps,
> 
> system(ls, intern = FALSE, ignore.stderr = TRUE)
> Error in as.character(args[[i]]) : cannot coerce to vector
> 
> In fact it ignores the stderr !

As per ?system:

command      the system command to be invoked, as a string.

Thus,

 system("ls", intern = FALSE, ignore.stderr = TRUE)


HTH,

Marc Schwartz




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