On 29 May 2008, at 10:39, Gundala Viswanath wrote: > Is there a way to do it? > > For example I tried this: > > args<-commandArgs() > fname <- args[6]."-".args[9] This would work under Perl :) Look for details: ?paste Try this: fname <- paste(args[6], ".", args[9], sep="") --Hans