[R] shell and shell.exec on Windows

[Gabor Grothendieck]

The system() function has an invisible= argument.  The ryacas package
uses system() to run yacas.  See the runYacas() and
yacasInvokeString() functions in yacas.R for examples:
   http://ryacas.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/R/yacas.R

On 8/11/07, Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> I have an Excel workbook "MyWorkbook.xls" containing an Auto_Open macro
> which I want to be run from R.
>
> shell.exec("MyWorkbook.xls")
> does that.
>
> shell("start MyWorkbook.xls")
> also runs it.
>
> In both cases, the Excel window is visible on screen when Excel is started.
> Is there a way of opening the sheet with a hidden Excel window?
> start has some parameters (e.g. /MIN), which should allow this, but
> shell("start /MIN MyWorkbook.xls")
> also starts Excel visibly.
>
>
>
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