[R] command to start a program (fortran code)

[Uwe Ligges]

If you want to integrate Fortran into R, see the manual Writing R 
Extensions.

If you want to just call some external program (independent of the 
language it is written in) via the operating system, see ?system (and 
?shell on Windows).

Uwe Ligges



thoeb wrote:
> Hello!
> Does exist a command to start a foreign program (Fortran language)? I wrote
> a few r-scripts in which data are prepared and several outputfiles are
> generated that are used as inputfiles for further calculation. For these
> calculations another program is needed, so it would be practically if I
> could get the program started automatically after the preparation of the
> data has finished. (The program just opens a new window which asks you to
> put in some parameters an give the names of the inputfiles. Afterwards it
> generats some outputfiles that are stored in the same folder as the
> inputfiles.) The aim is, that the user has just to use R to run the whole
> application.
> Thanks"
> 
> -----
> Tamara Hoebinger
> University of Vienna