[R] send command to other program

[thoeb]

Thanks! I have not used "system" before. May it works if "command" ist the
call for the program, but how can I integrate the transfer of the file names
(strings) from R to the program?


Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 
> Does ?system help?
> 
> Ranjan
> 
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:00:28 -0700 (PDT) thoeb <t.hoebinger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> does anybody know about how to "send" a command or a text line from R to
>> another program? I have written a script in which several calculations
>> are
>> made and outputfiles (csv) are generated. Afterwards I open another
>> program
>> (Fortran) via shell.exec. This program asks for the names if the output
>> files and it would be quite practically if it could just adopt the file
>> names from the r script.
>> 
>> Thank you in advance! 
>> 
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