[R] how to call Perl from R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

The read.xls function in the gdata package is another example (the
call to system is actually in xls2csv which it calls).

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Marc Schwartz<marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:58 AM, mauede at alice.it wrote:
>
>> I read some archived posts about calling R from Perl scripts. There seems
>> to be an R package creating the necessaary interface.
>>
>> I'd like to do the opposite. That is to call Perl from an R script.
>> I wonder whether this is possible at all ???
>> What about Bioperl which is a Perl variation built to deal with
>> Bioinformatic datasets ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Maura
>
> You would typically use the system() function to do this. See ?system for
> more information.
>
> If you want to see a specific example, which includes passing arguments to
> the Perl script, you can look at the R and Perl code in the WriteXLS package
> on CRAN.
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
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