[R] open/execute/call/run an external file
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Aug 22 07:11:57 CEST 2007
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, STEPHEN M POWERS wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to trigger a process from within R. I have
> an exectuable file that runs a Fortran model, but ideally, would like to
> run it from R. Note that I'm not talking about importing the function at
> all, passing variables, or anything complicated like that. I basically
> just want a script that "double-clicks" on a particular file and
> opens/runs it for me.
>
> The idea here is that the executable Fortran file, when double clicked,
> simply draws all necessary inputs from text files within the same
> directory and I have no need to change this. So I've used R to summarize
> some raw data and format these required text input files in the way the
> Fortran executable requires, and also have scripts to interpret the
> Fortran text file outputs and summarize/plot them in R. The problem is I
> must run the first part of the R script to send data from R to the
> model, then double click the Fortran executable, then run the second
> part of the R script to get the model outputs into R, in three separate
> steps. Given that I may be doing this hundereds of times, I'd prefer to
> do it all in one step.
>
> Any thoughts?---steve
It is described in the relevant manual: Writing R Extensions.
?system, and if this is Windows also ?shell and ?shell.exec.
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