[R] R system command on windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Aurelie Labbe, Dr. wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am trying to use the R command "system"  under windows (XP). If I try the simple command system("mkdir toto") to create a directory toto, it tells me that it cannot find the command mkdir...
> Does anybody knows how  it works ? Is it a path problem ? Maybe the answer is simple: I am a R user under Unix/Linux and I don't know well R under windows.
>


See ?system which tells you to execute the Windows command shell 
(cmd.exe) which is required to run mkdir or easier, just use the wrapper 
function shell() as in:
shell("mkdir toto")

Uwe Ligges




> Thanks !
> Aurelie
> 
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